The wolf is in the hen house again, and he’s using diapers as a disguise

Gavin Newsom is at it again, and this time he’s using diapers. Yes, you heard that right: Newsom’s new scam involves handing out diapers to every newborn at selected California hospitals.

On the surface, it sounds like a nice gesture, but Newsom is involved, and it’s California, so you know automatically that it can’t be on the level.

On Friday, Newsom announced the Golden State Start initiative, a partnership with the nonprofit Baby2Baby. This initiative will provide every newborn delivered in participating hospitals with 400 diapers for free.

This is a joke. The anti-family, pro-abortion Democrats want naïve California voters to think that they are suddenly pro-life and pro-family, when all this does is cost taxpayers more money. Peter Basios, the founder of an organic baby formula company, can see through the scam and has branded Gavin Newsom’s plan to offer free diapers to all new babies born in the state as “grifting nonsense.”

Simple math proves what a farce this is. The program will siphon $7.4 million from the 2025-2026 budget. Next year, the cost is estimated to be 12.5 million. Peter Basios argued that it would be cheaper to give every low-income new mom $100 in cash and tell her to go to Costco than for the state to pay 50 cents per diaper.

He posted this on X:

“100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers. “$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper. Now walk into any Costco in California, and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!”

“That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers. So the state is paying 8–10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.”

He went on to call the plan “peak government stupidity,” and criticized Newsom for “funding another bloated nonprofit-government grift.”

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton echoed those sentiments, saying Newsom’s diaper program is “three times more expensive” than what someone could buy at the store.

Newsom's office is promoting a "first-in-the-nation program" as part of a broader strategy to address affordability by leveraging the state's bulk-purchasing power to provide high-quality, mass-produced diapers directly to families.

ABC 7 News reported it this way:

“California families welcoming newborns will soon receive hundreds of free diapers before leaving the hospital under a first-in-the-nation program announced Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.”

“During the program’s first year, it will be offered at about 65 to 75 hospitals that handle about a quarter of births in the state and largely serve low-income patients, Newsom’s office said. The initiative will expand to more hospitals statewide, though the governor’s office did not say how many. The state has partnered with nonprofit Baby2Baby to manufacture the diapers under the label ‘Golden State Start.’”

“The state set aside $7.4 million in last year’s budget to roll out the initiative, and this year’s budget proposal includes an additional $12.5 million to implement the program for the upcoming fiscal year ending in June 2027.”

Well, there it is, “The Baby to Baby” connection. Kevin Dalton posted about Newsom’s wife and her association with this scam on X.

Gavin Newsom just announced a shiny new taxpayer-funded program giving free diapers to newborns leaving California hospitals, and his administration is partnering with Baby2Baby with almost $20 MILLION in state funds to manufacture them.

I’m sure it’s a total coincidence that one of Baby2Baby’s Co-CEOs, Norah Weinstein, sits on the board of Gavin Newsom’s wife’s California Partners Project.

Brittany Hughes also posted about the connection with Newsom’s wife and his high-profile donors, who will surely benefit from this diaper disaster.