Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom stopped short Tuesday of fully endorsing his state’s reparations plan that would send cash payments to black Californians in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

California’s Reparations Task Force on Saturday approved an $800 billion reparations proposal, to be sent to the legislature, that includes up to $1.2 million in payments for black Californians. Newsom, who signed legislation approving the creation of the task force, told the DCNF that, while he approved of the committee’s work, reparations were “much more than cash payments,” stopping short of explicitly endorsing all of the panel’s recommendations.

“The Reparations Task Force’s independent findings and recommendations are a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing. This has been an important process, and we should continue to work as a nation to reconcile our original sin of slavery and understand how that history has shaped our country,” Newsom said.