Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry questions whether California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is fit to be president as President Trump continues to set the benchmark on what an effective presidency looks like.
According to Breitbart, Berry shared her thoughts on the California governor at a New York Times DealBook Summit after he vetoed the Menopause Care Equity Act, a bill that would have ensured insurance coverage for evidence-based treatments. However, Newsome felt that the plan “would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs.”
TIME reported that an independent analysis from the California Health Benefits Review Program found that the bill would have had a negligible impact on insurance premiums. The veto represents Newsom’s failure to commit to women in the country.
Berry and women across California were outraged. Berry slammed the governor, saying, “Back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one, but two years in a row,” she added. “But that’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever, and the way he has overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us, he probably should not be our next president either.
Back in October, Newsom had told CBS News’ Sunday Morning that he would consider whether to run for president after the 2026 midterm elections. When asked whether we would give serious thought to a White House bid, Newsom had replied, “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise. I’d just be lying. And I’m not — I can’t do that.”
He also said in the interview, “The idea that a guy who got 960 on his SAT, that still struggles to read scripts, that was always in the back of the classroom, the idea that you would even throw that out is, in and of itself, extraordinary. Who the hell knows?”
One thing is clear. If Newsom hopes to run for president in the future, his failure to support women will be a factor, considering that more women voted in the previous election. According to the United States Census Bureau, 66 percent of women voted compared to 62 percent of men. President Trump has set a high bar that the California governor will be hard-pressed to meet at this rate.