California reparations recommendations have Newsom between rock and hard place

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to a proposal by his own reparations task force to pay up to $1.2 million to each Black resident.

Newsom has chosen to remain silent on the issue even though he may soon be forced to choose a side. The task force’s final recommendations will be submitted to the California Legislature, which will then decide whether to implement the measures and send them to Newsom's desk to be signed into law. Jessica Chasmar is a digital writer on the politics team for Fox News and Fox Business. Story tips can be sent to Jessica.Chasmar@fox.com.

"This has been a fool’s errand from the start," James Gallagher, California Assembly Republican Leader, told Fox News Digital. "Democrats have promised the world with this reparations task force, and now the massive taxpayer bill is coming due. Newsom has painted himself into a corner, and he’ll have to choose between signing off on a ridiculous policy that will bankrupt the state or admitting once and for all that this task force was nothing more than a political stunt."