California’s nonpartisan auditor just failed eight state agencies run by Gov. Gavin Newsom, sending a clear message to residents: your state is broken.

While Newsom has hailed California’s laughable cost-cutting measures as the original “DOGE” — a model of “efficient, responsive, and accountable” government — the auditor has revealed the rot in devastating detail.

The auditor’s new report identifies the eight “high-risk” agencies that not only exhibit serious “waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement,” but also have failed to take “adequate corrective actions.”

Four of those eight agencies attained this dubious distinction during Newsom’s term, including the social services department, which was added this year.

The report found, for example, that massive payment error rates in the delivery of food assistance benefits
could cost the state $2.5 billion in federal funds.

It also discovered that fraud and improper payments for unemployment benefits continue to cost the state billions.

The report added that inadequate eligibility determinations for Medi-Cal (the state’s version of Medicaid) put billions more dollars at risk.

And it noted that California’s six........

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