In the first State of the State address of his gubernatorial tenure, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would be downsizing the plan to build a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

"The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long," said Governor Newsom. "There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency."

"Right now, there simply isn't a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were. However, we do have the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield."

The governor's address came exactly one week after President Donald Trump's latest State of the Union address, which Newsom said was "fundamentally at odds with California values."

In the wide-ranging speech, Governor Newsom went on to address a number of other key issues facing the state.

TRUMP'S BORDER WALL: "California will not be part of this political theater."

"This border 'emergency' is nothing more than a manufactured crisis and California will not be part of this political theater," said Newsom. "Just yesterday, I sent a new directive to the National Guard, put them on a new mission -- one that's going to focus on the real threats facing our state."

Newsom went on to elaborate that the guard would be redeployed to help prepare for the upcoming fire season, pursue illegal cannabis farms in the northern part of the state, and to stop smugglers from bringing drugs through existing checkpoints.

"The wall that stretches thousands and thousands of miles through wilderness will do nothing to stop this threat," he added, in reference to the drugs being smuggled in through the southern border.

EDUCATION: "Districts across the state are challenged to balance budgets even in this economy."

"The teachers' strike in L.A. is over but the need to confront its underlying causes has only just begun," said Governor Newsom.

"Understaffed schools, overcrowded classrooms, pension pressures, the achievement gap, growth of charter schools. . .these stressors are showing up all over the state," he added.

"We're still 41st in the nation in per-pupil funding," said Governor Newsom. "Something needs to change."

"We need a new President for the State Board of Education, to lead the way and work alongside State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, and to lift up all of our students. My pick for that position is nationally recognized education expert Linda Darling Hammond."

HOMELESSNESS: "Our homelessness crisis has increasingly become a public health crisis."

Newsom also spoke at length about the state's challenge in dealing with rampant homelessness, calling it an "urgent moral issue we must confront."

"So many of California's homeless, whether they're families, veterans, victims of rent spikes, or survivors fleeing domestic violence are invisible and left behind by our society," said the Governor.

"Last year we had a hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, an outbreak of Syphilis up in Sonoma, Typhus in Los Angeles, Typhus. A medieval disease in California in 2019."

The Governor went on to say that housing was "perhaps the most overwhelming challenge we face right now," adding that "while shelter solves sleep, housing and supportive services solve homelessness."