California’s Siebel Newsom Slams Tech Titans for Rightward Shift

Feb. 11, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

California Governor Gavin Newsom has tussled with Donald Trump without alienating the president’s Silicon Valley supporters. His wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is striking a sharper tone.

In an interview with Bloomberg’s The Circuit, California’s first partner called the rightward shift of some tech-industry titans “disheartening and disturbing.”

“When you spend too much time in your bubble of wealth,” Siebel Newsom said, “where you only interact with people of the same economic ilk unless they actually are employed by you, I think that’s a really dangerous place.”

Jennifer Siebel Newsom during an interview in Marin County in November.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Several tech leaders with longstanding ties to Newsom have recently moved ...

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