{"id":382,"date":"2020-04-23T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:25:07","slug":"did-gavin-newsom-make-a-bad-deal-for-masks-with-a-chinese-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Did Gavin Newsom make a bad deal for masks with a Chinese company?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evidently, according to the <em>LA Times<\/em>,  he is refusing to let elected officials learn the details of the deal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But almost immediately, lawmakers wondered why the Newsom administration wouldn\u2019t allow them to review the contract before asking for the first payment to BYD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe would never approve a budget this way,\u201d Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), chairman of the Assembly Budget Committee, said in an interview on April 9, two days after the deal was announced. \u201cThe whole reason we don\u2019t do a budget one request at a time is we want to know the big picture.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-04-20\/gavin-newsom-n95-masks-byd-chinese-company-california-legislature\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-04-20\/gavin-newsom-n95-masks-byd-chinese-company-california-legislature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, according to the LA Times, he is refusing to let elected officials learn the details of the deal: But almost immediately, lawmakers wondered why the Newsom administration wouldn\u2019t allow them to review the contract before asking for the first payment to BYD. \u201cWe would never approve a budget this way,\u201d Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}