Two-thirds of Californians would get an extra $600 from the state under a new plan unveiled Monday morning by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Families with children would also get additional $500 checks as part of the plan, according to Newsom’s office.
His office has not yet release details about who would qualify for the payments. He is scheduled to discuss the plan at an event in Alameda County Monday morning.
The proposal represents nearly $12 billion of a $100 billion “California Comeback Plan” Newsom says he’ll unveil in pieces over the next few days to help the state bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The stimulus plan will be a big chunk of a revised state budget proposal from his office, which is due by the end of the week.
The checks would help Californians who have struggled during the pandemic, according to Newsom’s office. He’ll need to convince lawmakers to support his plan for it to become law.
It would build on $600 payments Newsom and lawmakers approved in February for low-income families and on federal stimulus payments.
On Sunday, he and his wife, First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, released a Mothers Day video in which he also promised increased spending for families and caretakers, including funding for 100,000 new state-subsidized child care slots and $200 million for home care workers.
“We’re going to be making some bold investments, and some big investments, in particular to support parents,” he said in the video. “We have the backs of mothers and will be making investments to solve real problems and to acknowledged the extraordinary stress that so many moms, particularly working moms, have been under over this last year.”
Newsom’s revised budget proposal will kick off the home-stretch of budget negotiations with the Legislature. His initial plan, which he unveiled in January, already anticipated a big cash windfall. He and lawmakers used some of that revenue to fund incentives for school openings, financial assistance to lower-income households, and wildfire prevention, among other programs.
But California has collected even more tax revenue than expected since then, meaning Newsom’s revised plan will have even more money to spend. Newsom and lawmakers will need to hash out the details of how to spend the expected surplus before the July 1 start of the 2021-22 fiscal year.
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Newsom’s attempt to bribe and buy his way out of his government malfeasance with THE PEOPLE’s own money to fend off his recall, is not only just more governing malfeasance, but more befitting a Tripolitan Pirate in their 1800 dealings with President Adams who took a knee to profess this not to be a Christian nation in order to free American hostages, versus Jefferson who sent them the Constitution in the form of Steven Decatur and a broadside from Old Ironsides( USS Constitution) which still resides on display in Boston Harbor, where like in California, the men used to be men and the sheep not nervous. Newsom just bids his current social dependency hostages to go deeper into the Democrat bowels of the debt prisons of Socialist dependency creation to keep the failing California Democrat pirates in power. Me thinks even the Democrat locked down COVID prisoners are ready to rebel and storm the Bastille. Any hungry peasant on his feet is better off and more potent than a well fed Democrat on his knees which Newsom is about to become.
I am going to tax you 2000, and then make it seem like i am Giving you 600 back… SO in effect i am only getting Fleeced for 1,400…
AND I AM supposed to see that as a Good thing!?
Also i wonder, how many of those checks will go into the hands of ALL THE 11+ million ILLEGAL INVADERS in that state?!
This is nothing more than an attempt by Gov. Newsom to save his own job. He is taking tax money the government TAKES from the people of California and using it to try to buy more time in office.
California has a number of financial problems. This excess money should either go to pay off its debts or it should be returned to the people from whom it was taken.
More redistribution of taxpayer wealth to the Democrat party in bought votes. Fine the Democrat party the amount spent.
Liberals NEVER THING ahead, to PAY DOWN Debt, or save for rainy days.. THEY just love to spend, spend, spend..
Gavin go to The French Laundry Restaurant, without your mask on. You can go with your wife, First “Partner” (oh how I love political correctness) Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Oh, Gavin, just make sure your winery is still open while you have the other wineries closed throughout the state. You are a real beauty, like Trump would say, sending crumbs to the public so they will keep you in office. Gavin, you are so full of “sugar” the people in California will have a severe insulin attack.