(The Center Square) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget emergency proclamation, authorizing the state to access $17.6 billion in its budget stabilization account as he signed a record $321 billion budget.
In the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the last year before Newsom’s governorship, the state budget was $201 billion, meaning the state’s budget has grown 60% over the last five years while the population has slightly declined.
“Largely due to the federal government’s sweeping tariff policy, the 2025 May Revision forecast of the California economy projects a period of below-trend growth and rising unemployment (‘growth recession’) and a General Fund revenue forecast downgrade by $5.2 billion in fiscal years 2023-24 through 2025-26,” wrote the governor.
While Newsom’s order blames the Trump administration for the state’s economic slowdown, federal data shows California lost a net 80,300 jobs in 2024, and had shed 173,000 private-sector jobs between January 2023 and December 2024, suggesting the state’s economic woes predated the Trump administration.
38.2% of Californians are so low-income they qualify for Medi-Cal, which has a monthly income threshold of $1,801, or $21,612, or about half of what one would make working at a fast-food restaurant full-time.
In March, nearly half of all new jobs were from the state’s In Home Supportive Services program, a welfare program by which disabled or elderly Medi-Cal beneficiaries use taxpayer money to employ household members for up to 70 hours a week for household tasks, including a boost for overtime pay.
Nearly three quarters of a million Californians are now classified as employed IHSS providers.
While Newsom’s order blames the Trump administration for the state’s economic slowdown, federal data shows California lost a net 80,300 jobs in 2024, and had shed 173,000 private-sector jobs between January 2023 and December 2024, suggesting the state’s economic woes predated the Trump administration.
The lying, corrupt, treasonous Democrat Party elite and the Democrat Party supporters are never held responsible or are held accountable for their deliberate, treasonous, unlawful, destructive, dishonorable, immoral, lying actions and agendas. Democrats always Lie and blame someone or something else for their own actions and policies and get away with their Lies, even if the Democrats are caught “red handed”.
AND WHY is the states OUTPUT OF money going up SIXTY percent, when the # OF FOLKS FLEEING has also gotten larger?
“38.2% of Californians are so low-income”,,,,,because most are uneducated or miseducated illegal Newscum allowed-in aliens, yearning not to live free but eat free. Follow the bloated budgets and you will find it went just illegally to the belly bloated California Democrat crime families whose refusal to follow the law is every bit as bad as the illegal alien people of illegal mental minsets, they allowed to repopulate the state from the productive LEGAL Americans their policies ran out of the state.
Not just that, but how many are 2nd, or even 3rd generation WElfare leeches?
Illegals are.not federal or state citizens . so they should be removed from public assistance. Imagine how much.money California could save .
They also need to be removed from the census. WHY SHOULD the # of congressional reps, be including for the # of illegals here!?