Friday, May 31, 2024

CA BUDGET FIGHT IS UP AND RUNNING

By Bob Walsh

 

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The tentative CA budget proposal from Gavin "God I Want To Be President" Newsom is a hair of $288 billion.  Even he admits that, just right now, he is about 10% in the hole.  That hole could be more than 20% depending on who you ask, like the Legislative Analysts Office.

Theoretically Gavin is filling the hole by slashing vacant state jobs and manuvering other spending cuts, like delaying the considerable raise that health care workers are supposed to be getting very soon.  Too bad he doesn't think that eliminating government paid health care for illegal aliens or free state paid lawyers to fight deportation would be a good thing to slash.  

The state has 16 days to pass a budget bill.  They have often cheated on that in the past but that is harder and harder to do as the general public has been really unpleasant when this happens and they suspend the pay of the members of the legislature for the period of time in which they have NOT done their job.  In the past the legislature has always agreed to pay themselves back once a budget is passed.  Might not be possible now.

In any event we are about to see an orgy of "whose ox gets gored" over the next two weeks or so.  Enjoy the fight.

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