{"id":12320,"date":"2025-06-18T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:01:58","slug":"california-legislature-passes-record-325b-budget-with-10-20b-deficits-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/18\/california-legislature-passes-record-325b-budget-with-10-20b-deficits-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"California Legislature Passes Record $325B Budget With $10-$20B Deficits Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What a Demonrat train wreck California is. And if you&#8217;re not familiar with the families that have run California for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/CaliforniaPolitics.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, people are getting enriched from all that money they&#8217;re stealing. They spent billions on the homeless epidemic they&#8217;re responsible for, with not much to show for it. Consequently, there is a theory that government jobs are a welfare system in a way, as otherwise there would be a lot more people out of work, and many jobs aren&#8217;t really necessary. And just look at California&#8217;s budget now, those deficits, as well as the average salary of a California government employee. And a lot of these retired California government workers are spreading around the nation after retirement with those lush pensions and huge sums they sold their homes for, and as things worsen, you&#8217;d have to expect them to go for all that pension money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/discernreport.com\/california-legislature-passes-record-325b-budget-with-10-20b-deficits-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/discernreport.com\/california-legislature-passes-record-325b-budget-with-10-20b-deficits-ahead\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_454c1286-2a36-4909-b03b-17484c7bb32d\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/discernreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gavin-Newsom-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gavin Newsom\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Kenneth Schrupp<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/ca-legislature-oks-325b-budget-despite-calls-less-taxes\">Just The News<\/a>)\u2014The California Legislature passed a record $325 billion preliminary budget, with final details remaining to be hammered out before the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This record budget comes as polling finds a growing majority of Californians now support having lower taxes, in return for fewer government services.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppic.org\/publication\/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-june-2025\/\">According<\/a>&nbsp;to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, the majority of Californians supported higher taxes and more services in nearly every PPIC survey since the question was added in 2003 \u2014 that is until 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past decade, state spending has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/article_784919f6-9db4-42b1-a185-905b15e8f16a.html\">doubled<\/a>&nbsp;while the population has remained largely flat. Officials say employees of the state now earn an average of $177,000, up 42% from 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis budget continues to overspend while hoping for a growth in revenue instead of cautiously preparing for the worst,\u201d said state Sen. Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, who serves as vice chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA budget that is based on hope is a budget that is destined for despair,\u201d Niello told The Center Square in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed more proactive cuts from the taxpayer-funded Medi-Cal public health care system, including benefits for illegal immigrants, only some of which were adopted by the Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor\u2019s proposals included requiring illegal immigrants enrolled in Medi-Cal to pay $100 per month in premiums and barring new illegal immigrants 19 or older from enrolling in Medi-Cal starting in January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newsom also called for re-instituting an asset test for Medi-Cal enrollment for seniors, ending Medi-Cal coverage for weight loss drugs such as Ozempic, ending in-home supportive services coverage for illegal immigrants, and limiting in-home supportive services overtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The adopted&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB101\">budget<\/a>&nbsp;included most of the governor\u2019s proposals, but did not address illegal immigrant Medi-Cal premiums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legislature\u2019s analysis of the adopted budget estimates that pausing new illegal immigrant enrollment in Medi-Cal will save up to $3.3 billion per year, while ending weight-loss drug coverage for Medi-Cal will save up to $680 million per year, and reinstating Medi-Cal asset limits for seniors at $130,000 will save up to $510 million per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the state-funded Legislative Analyst\u2019s Office\u2019s Memorial Day weekend&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/california\/article_6bfea8b9-2425-4d7f-8e9c-5332fab57771.html\">report<\/a>&nbsp;on state finances, the state faces \u201cpersistent future deficits\u201d of $10 billion to $20 billion per year \u2014 even after incorporating the savings from the governor\u2019s proposed budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo balance the budget going forward, the Legislature will likely need to adopt additional solutions that increase ongoing revenues or reduce ongoing spending \u2014 both of which involve the most difficult and consequential trade-offs for policymakers,\u201d wrote the LAO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the new budget for the fiscal year hits yet another record, it\u2019s unclear how lawmakers will seek to address the state\u2019s worsening financial position, especially with voters\u2019 polled preference for lowering taxes and reducing state services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a Demonrat train wreck California is. And if you&#8217;re not familiar with the families that have run California for decades. Consequently, people are getting enriched from all that money they&#8217;re stealing. They spent billions on the homeless epidemic they&#8217;re responsible for, with not much to show for it. Consequently, there is a theory that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}