Posted on 12/18/2023 2:59:07 AM PST by Enterprise
What is truly unexpected is that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has just ordered a state spending freeze.
In a memo sent across California agencies and departments this week, the director of the Department of Finance wrote, “It is vitally important that state government is efficient, effective, and only expends funds that are necessary to the critical operation and security of the state. As such, all state entities must take immediate action to reduce expenditures and identify all operational savings achieved.”
The department urged state agencies to take several steps to save money, including avoiding any new contracts or agreements to lease or purchase equipment and cancel all plans for non-essential travel to seminars, conferences or training. It also urged departments to halt the purchase of new technology, non-essential state vehicle replacements and to reevaluate expensive IT projects.
H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the Department of Finance, said the last time the administration made this kind of directive was at the beginning of the pandemic in the spring of 2020 when state revenues plunged.
Palmer said the message to state agencies is simple: “We know you have an authorized budget, but if you haven’t spent the money on things you don’t need right away, don’t do it.”
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interesting that newsom is doing to Cali what true conservatives have been proposing should be done to the entire federal government. leading...from behind?
LMAO
100% getting ready to run for president
This is a huge problem for vendors who supply state agencies with products and services. They did this several times when I was in business in Ca. What they do is issue “I owe you”s to their vendors. One time it took them a whole year before they finally caught up on all the credit I had extended out of my own pocket to carry them. Several times it was over 6 months...
But the really important issue is what happens to the ten trillion dollars in reparations that have been promised?
I see that some comedians have found their way into government “service”.
He’s not doing this out of a new found sense of leadership. He’s doing it because the state is out of money. The next step is stiffing the state employees’ payroll. We can’t have that, can we?
EC
Doesn’t sound like an order to me.
“But the really important issue is what happens to the ten trillion dollars in reparations that have been promised?”
He will get it from Biden. So you and I will be indirectly paying it.
It would be nice if CA collapses during the election year. Greasy boy is the Democrats great white hope.
Very weird. Newsome is clearly running for president. He must think this will play well with voters.
Obviously preparing to run for president.
For the next two weeks - during a holiday? Very bold.
“ and only expends funds that are necessary to the critical operation and security of the state.”
And they’ll all scream that their spending is critical. Then they will spend every nickel and demand even more next year.
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Corollary to the Rule: Always spend all of the budget lest it be cut next year to what you actually spent.
Except for illegals, they can have all the money they want.
Pretty sure the barn is empty
and an increase in taxes ? LOL
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