The American secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, warned the governor of California Gavin Newsom that he would be guilty of “criminal tax evasion” if he retained the tax payments of his state in the federal government in the midst of threats of funding reduced by reduced by reduced funding by Donald Trump.
Newsom had threatened to reduce tax payments to the federal government two days ago after the information that Trump was preparing enormous federal financing reductions Californiaincluding its state university system.
“Gavin Newsom threatens to commit an escape from criminal tax”, ” Bessent said in a post on x. “His plan: fraud the American taxpayer and let California residents hang unpaid federal taxes.”
Bessent continued: “I am sure that most California knows that not paying taxes due to the treasury constitutes a tax evasion and has no intention to follow the dangerous chimney governor Gavin Newsom is threatening.
He described Newsom’s comments as “extremely reckless” and advised the governor to propose a tax cup plan for California which reflected the Federal Trump tax reduction plan, “instead of committing criminal tax evasion”.
Comments from the Treasury Secretary came after Newsom poster Friday that “Californians pay invoices for the federal government. We pay more than $ 80 billion in taxes that we do not return. It may be time to reduce this, Donald Trump. ”
The Governor of California linked to A CNN report The fact that the Trump administration is preparing to cancel federal funding for California and federal agencies had been responsible for identifying the subsidies that could be selected, including the systems of the University of California and California.
Friday, in a statement, the spokesperson for the White House, Kush Desai, criticized California’s energy, immigration and other positions of “lunatic anti-energy, gentle on crime, pro-child mutilation and pro-economic political”.
“No taxpayers should be forced to finance the disappearance of our country,” said Desai, but he added that “no final decision, however, on a potential future action of the administration has been made, and any discussion suggesting the opposite should be considered pure speculation.”
Newsom and Trump are used to a word war, including threats to refuse funding. The administration recently reduced $ 126 million in flood prevention financing projects, and Trump threatened “large -scale fines” on the state after the transgender athlete Ab Hernandez participated in long jump, high jump and triple jump to the California Interscholastic Federation and field championships.
However, the reported threat of reducing federal funding from the California university system seems to have pushed Californian officials into retaliation threats. Shortly before Newsom threatens, the president of the California assembly, Robert Rivas, describe The cancellations of the subsidy as “unconstitutional and vindictive”.
“We are the economic engine of the country and the largest donor state, and we deserve our fair share,” wrote Rivas. “I will use all the legal and constitutional tools available to defend CA – We must examine all the options, including the retention of federal taxes.”
