Posted on 06/29/2025 10:43:58 PM PDT by Libloather
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Friday a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities, including a landmark health care expansion for low-income adult illegal immigrants, to close a $12 billion deficit.
It’s the third year in a row the nation’s most populous state has been forced to slash funding or stop some of the programs championed by Democratic leaders.
Lawmakers passed the budget earlier in the day following an agreement of a $321 billion spending plan between Newsom and Democratic leaders.
But the whole budget will be void if lawmakers don’t send him legislation to make it easier to build housing by Monday.
The budget avoids some of the most devastating cuts to essential safety net programs, state leaders said. They mostly relied on using state savings, borrowing from special funds and delaying payments to plug the budget hole.
“It’s balanced, it maintains substantial reserves, and it’s focused on supporting Californians,” Newsom said in a statement about the budget.
California also faces potential federal cuts to health care programs and broad economic uncertainty that could force even deeper cuts.
Newsom in May estimated that federal policies — including on tariffs and immigration enforcement — could reduce state tax revenue by $16 billion.
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That’s wacist!!!!!!
“Well, son of a bit$h”......
What’s wrong, California? Not enough of other people’s money to spend? Rich people moving out of the state?
No one is cutting their "access" to healthcare, they just have to pay for it like everyone else.
The media does the same thing with "access" to a bank account or "access" to food.
If I don't want to pay for someone's groceries every week, I am not denying them "access" to sustenance. I simply don't want to pay for it. They are free to go to the store on their own dime to buy as much food as they want. The media is in a never-ending quest to shape and control the language and messaging in order to control the narrative.
Newsom cannot explain where $24 billion <— went that was for homeless. Instead of 45,000 homeless there are now over 70,000 homeless in Los Angeles....
Hahaha... My state of Kalifornias reserve fund has gone from 45 billion to a “projected” 15 billion in just two years. CalPers the Nation’s largest State Employee pension fund is hundreds of billions (some projections are well over a trillion) in unfunded liabilities. The total debt for California cities is over 200 billion. Newsome can’t wait for his term to end. He just hopes this ponzi scheme aka Kalifornia doesn’t go pop before Nov. 2026.
SMOKE & MIRRORS
NEWSCUM WILL NEVER SUPPORT THE PRODUCERS-—ONLY THE TAKERS
Looks like someone explained the difference between “immigrant” and “illegal immigrant” to him. Whether he understands the difference is yet to be seen.
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Notice the wording: “cutting back access to healthcare”.
No one is cutting their “access” to healthcare, they just have to pay for it like everyone else.
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Come now, THAT ship has *long* sailed.
You forgot to bring up how it’s “THEIR {X}”, when the TAXPAYERS are on the hook for everything.
Commie Leftists (I repeat myself) == ‘Liberal’ (having ZERO to do w/ Liberty), let alone ‘progressive’
No corrections, even on the right, when ‘criminal illegal aliens’ are instead called ‘immigrants’
Hell, we’re back to ‘{X} keeping more of their OWN property (aka “tax cuts”)’ as having to be ‘financed/paid for’ *facepalm*. For SURE *nobody* on the right says otherwise; that’d begin a discussion NOBODY in govt wants to start.
Are the “Dipstick judges” going to allow Newscum to get away with this? The RAT Señators will all be filling the hospitals to have some juice with illegal alien in-patients.
Wonder what the Newsom show for president gave them in exchange must be a biggie $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
More smoke and mirrors from the Democrat run state house. What they say and what they do are never the same.
The horror, the horror.
Funny how that $12B is the exact amount California spends on providing illegals with Medi-Cal - a policy enacted by Newsom - who told us it would only cost the state $6B
Newsom is well aware that Trump won’t bail him out - and he can’t print the dollars up himself.
Yes, all the way until the state becomes untenable and implodes.
Newsom will then retire to Montana where his wife is from.
Next time some clown tries to argue that illegals bring in $, note that this one issue was 4% of California’s total budget... and this is only a partial cutback.
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