California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a widely discussed bill that would have provided unemployment insurance to striking workers, but he didn’t much want to talk about it.
The governor’s rejection of SB 799 was announced on a Saturday night in a batch news release that rounded up the fates of more than three dozen pieces of legislation. In a statement accompanying the veto, Newsom cited concerns about adding to the federal debt associated with the state’s Unemployment Insurance trust fund.
