WATCH: Even CNN Is Demanding Answers From Karen Bass For LA’s Homelessness Crisis

Spencer Pratt’s attention-grabbing campaign to unseat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has helped highlight a number of the city’s ongoing crises, including an epidemic of homeless addicts.

And while she might have been hoping to avoid any accountability by sticking to seemingly friendlier outlets like CNN, a recent profile of the incumbent mayor included some refreshingly hard-hitting questions.

Here’s what the New York Post reported:

During an interview with CNN, Elex Michaelson asked why voters should trust Bass after she said in 2023 that her goal was to eliminate street homelessness by the end of her first term.

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“I didn’t anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now,” Bass responded. “When I said that, it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal.”

Michaelson, who had been referring to interview she gave to CNN’s Jake Tapper’s State of the Union in 2023, continued to press Bass on her pledge.

“You promised that it would go away 100%, and it’s only gone down about 17.6%. “Why should people trust you that you’re gonna be able to get to the 100%?” Michaelson said.

“Because, let me just tell you, for the first time we’ve had a decrease at all,” Bass said.

Bass could soon see the writing on the wall (or the X feed) that her excuse wasn’t being particularly well received:

Is this not what liberals always do? They say they will 'fix' something, and they either fail, make it worse, then blame Trump. Harris claimed that, even though her administration was an abject failure, if we just elected her, she could suddenly fix all the problems they created.

— Dennis Jensen (@JensenJ92473660) May 20, 2026

Not only is she confessing she & her supermajority party had ZERO plan or intent to help the homeless, shes divulging the motives why if you call 911 bc a hobo pooped on the playground, YOU get treated like the bad guy. Because you were exposing their grift by expecting Normalcy

— TJ King (@tjking) May 21, 2026

It wasn’t her only recent comment on the subject to bring about some sharp criticism: 

Spencer Pratt: I’m gonna remove the homeless druggies from in front of your kids’ elementary school, let you rebuild your homes, and arrest criminals

Karen Bass: Taxpayer funded teeth for meth heads

Nithya Raman: I’m gonna ban BBQs

How is this even a choice

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 18, 2026

Here’s what Fox News reported about that controversy:

During a mayoral candidate forum last week, Bass went viral after referencing the need for homeless meth users to have working teeth to help rebuild their lives.

“How many people that you meet that are unhoused don’t have teeth at all?” Bass said during an exchange. “They don’t have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth.”

“You can’t succeed without teeth. So there needs to be comprehensive healthcare provided to people,” she continued.

During an interview with ABC7, Bass stood by her comments and said the care was already available through Medi-Cal when asked who would pay for the dental care that the “unhoused” need.

“So, when I say comprehensive healthcare, it’s actually what people can get from Medi-Cal,” Bass said. “The problem is that the linkage isn’t made with the people and the services, and so — “

“So it would be taxpayers?” ABC7 reporter Josh Haskell asked.

“Well, we already pay for it. It’s already paid for. It’s the linkage that hasn’t happened,” Bass said.

Here’s a clip of her comments on CNN: