Newsom ignoring California crises to promote himself in pro-abortion campaign, GOP lawmakers say [Video]

Republican lawmakers torched Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for his national pro-abortion campaign on Monday while California faces several crises they say demand his attention.

“It’s certainly frustrating that Gov. Newsom is focusing all his attention on other states besides California,” Assemblyman Vince Fong, vice chair of the state’s budget committee, told Fox News Digital. “California is in crisis.”

Fong, who has been sounding the alarm on the state’s $73 billion budget deficit for years, said the legislature and Newsom refuse to “address the structural problems of our deficits,” citing “overspending” and a swath of small businesses fleeing the state.

“Then you add in our insurance crisis in California, we have an affordability crisis, Californians are leaving our state because they can’t afford to live and work in California, and we have crime on the rise, we have wildfire risks, we have the need to invest in more infrastructure, we have a supply chain crisis,” Fong said. “I mean, the …