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California's new governor says his policy goals include lowering prescription drug costs, increasing affordable housing and ending the use of private prisons.
Gov. Gavin Newsom didn't provide details in his broad pronouncements Monday as he was sworn in to office.
The Democratic governor says he'll try to use the market power of the most populous state to lower prescription drug costs and mount what he called a "Marshall Plan" to spur affordable housing.
The Marshall Plan was a massive U.S. effort to rebuild European countries devastated by World War II. Newsom promised a similar "statewide mission" to tackle what he called a "homeless epidemic."
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He also promised to "end the outrage of private prisons," though California has depended on private facilities to meet a federal population cap on inmates.
He is also promising that the most populous state will be a "sanctuary to all who seek it" in a direct affront to President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom challenged the Trump administration repeatedly as he was sworn in to office Monday, particularly on immigration.
He says children should not be "ripped away from their parents" at the border. He says they also shouldn't be left hungry while Trump seems to spend billions of dollars on "a wall that should never be built."
Newsom also referred to the administration as corrupt and incompetent and promised California will "write America's future."
The former San Francisco mayor became the state's 40th governor, succeeding the term-limited Jerry Brown.
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom helped open the inauguration ceremony for the incoming governor with a poem from Juan Felipe Herrera.
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Preparations are underway for the incoming governor's inauguration.
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California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye will be administering the Oath of Office to Governor-elect Gavin Newsom.
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The incoming governor held a family event at the California Railroad Museum the day before he's set to be inaugurated.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
After overcoming his Republican challenger in 2018, Gavin Newsom will be soon be sworn in as California's 40th Governor.
The incoming California governor is expected to draw immediate battle lines Monday with President Donald Trump in his inaugural address, portraying California's "progressive, principled" policies as the antidote to the White House's "corruption and incompetence."
"People's lives, freedom, security, the water we drink, the air we breathe — they all hang in the balance," Newsom plans to say, according to excerpts of his speech released by his office.
Newsom takes the helm as the 40th governor of the nation's most populous state, succeeding fellow Democrat Jerry Brown. He enters the governorship two years into California's self-styled "resistance" to Trump, and appears poised to ramp up the contrast even more.
But even as he needles Trump, Newsom will attempt an overture to the millions of voters in rural California who voted for Trump in 2016 and Newsom's Republican rival last November.
"I recognize that many in our rural communities believe that Sacramento doesn't care about them — doesn't even really see them," he plans to say. "I see you. I care about you. And I will represent you with pride."
Some of those progressive principles Newsom plans to pursue include expanding access to child care and pre-kindergarten programs, extending paid family leave and giving community colleges more money to potentially waive tuition fees.
His first budget address Thursday will offer a glimpse on how they'll pay for it all, but on Monday he'll highlight the issues as key aspects of the "California dream" that everyone in the state should be able to achieve.
While Newsom highlighted those goals over and over on the campaign trail, his inaugural offers a chance for the new governor to offer a grand vision for the state he'll lead for the next four years and a chance to distinguish himself from his predecessor, Brown.
It will be the first time since 1887 that California has had consecutive Democratic governors. The handoff reflects Democrats' dominance in California politics — the party holds every statewide office and huge majorities in the Legislature.
The new governor will stay Brown's course in some areas but is likely to push more ambitious and expensive policies related to health care and education. And he'll be "a little more of a flashy governor than Brown," said Eric Schickler, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Newsom enters office with a strong economy and nearly $30 billion in reserves left from Brown, although a slowing of the national economy could drastically shift the course of Newsom's governorship.
For now, though, "he comes in in a pretty enviable spot," Schickler said.
Newsom, 51, is a tailored-suit politician with a mega-watt smile and perfectly coiffed hair. Where Brown kept the media at arm's length, Newsom courts the spotlight.
The generational change he brings to the governor's mansion was reflected in the musical headliners for a wildfire victims benefit concert Newsom hosted on Sunday — hip-hop artists Pitbull and Common. The concert raised $5 million.
Earlier in the day, Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, held a family-focused event at the California State Railroad Museum after attending a brunch with high-dollar donors.
Siebel Newsom already has created a change in Sacramento political traditions with her preference for the title "first partner" rather than "first lady," which she said is more inclusive. It's also reflective of her professional experience as an actress and filmmaker focused on gender politics and inequality.
Jerry Hallisey, a San Francisco lawyer and longtime Newsom family friend who helps with fundraising, said he expects Newsom to pull more expertise from the private sector into his administration than Brown did. Newsom launched a winery in 1992 that grew into the PlumpJack Group, a network of wineries and hospitality businesses that made him a millionaire. He's placing his controlling interests into a blind trust to avoid conflicts of interest.
The rest of California's incoming constitutional officers were scheduled for their own inaugurations throughout Monday, including Attorney General Xavier Becerra who also drew a sharp contrast with Trump as he took the oath of office in the morning.
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Associated Press writers Don Thompson and Jonathan J. Cooper in Sacramento contributed to this report.