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"content": "\u003cp>No deficits. A “modest” surplus of $363 million. Almost $17 billion more in revenue than planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>’s office laid out its vision today for how California should spend its considerable bounty, a total budget of $322 billion — projected to be the \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/2023/03/CHART-B.pdf\">second largest\u003c/a> state spending plan ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It released the proposal — on the date required by law — at a moment of deep uncertainty with devastating fires continuing to burn in Los Angeles County and President-elect Donald Trump preparing to take office this month. Those developments could require significant changes to Newsom’s plan before he finalizes the state budget in late June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economic impact of the ongoing Los Angeles-area fires alone is estimated to be at least $135 billion. That’s based on damage caused to homes, cars, businesses and lost economic activity, said Dan DePodwin, senior director of forecasting operations at AccuWeather. A spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services said it’s too soon to calculate the cost of the fires to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2025/01/california-fires-donald-trump-money/\">Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly threatened\u003c/a> to withhold federal disaster aid from California, which is facing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/explainers/california-wildfire-season-worsening-explained/\">one of its most destructive wildfires this week\u003c/a>. While outgoing President Joe Biden has approved Newsom’s request for a major disaster declaration — allowing the state to tap into \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/01/08/governor-newsom-quickly-secures-major-disaster-declaration-from-president-biden-for-los-angeles-fires/\">federal funding and assistance programs\u003c/a> — the state could still need more federal disaster funding under Trump’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom could completely fall out,” Newsom said in a preview of his budget proposal earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the fiscal outlook is far rosier than the pall that hung over California last year when lawmakers and the governor scrambled to plug a more than $46 billion budget hole. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/06/california-budget-deal-4/\">In June\u003c/a>, they struck a deal to cut $16 billion in spending, delay another $3 billion in funding for various services and draw a total $12 billion from the state’s rainy day fund for two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the administration projects the state budget’s main tranche of cash, the general fund, will rise to $229 billion in 2025-26. That’s about \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/reference/MultiYearProjection.pdf\">$10 billion more\u003c/a> than what his office and lawmakers predicted last June and roughly $17 billion more than what’s in this year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom’s also sticking to last year’s deal with the Legislature to \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Introduction.pdf#page=2\">pull $7.1 billion\u003c/a> from the state’s main reserve account — even though his office projected on Monday that revenues are up by $16.5 billion more than planned across a three-year budget window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/roger-niello-165442\">Roger Niello\u003c/a>, a Republican representing Roseville, criticized Newsom’s plan to continue drawing from reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about increased revenues and a relatively strong economy, and yet we have to pull from reserves, which doesn’t make sense to a lot of people,” said Niello, the top Republican on the Senate budget committee. “And it also kind of doesn’t make sense that you’re talking about actually having a surplus when you had to pull from the reserves to create that surplus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New homeless agency, free diapers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those conditions allowed Newsom to make several new proposals, including creating a state agency to better coordinate homelessness and housing policies. The administration did not propose new spending on homelessness, and it did not release details on how it would reorganize existing departments under the agency Newsom envisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finance Director Joe Stepenshaw said the spending plan proposes just $1.2 billion in new funding. “There is very limited new commitments in this budget,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Most state revenue comes from personal income tax\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The personal income Californians pay accounts for about 60% of money that goes toward the state’s general fund. Corporate taxes as well as sales and use taxes make up another third. \u003cem>General fund revenue by source for the past three budget years\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Owxvx/4/\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n In a small item that could make a meaningful difference to new parents, Newsom wants to spend $7.4 million to provide a three month supply of diapers for newborns. He also seeks to \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/TK-12Education.pdf#page=7\">add $40 million in funds\u003c/a> for schools to screen students for reading difficulties, including dyslexia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to add 700 firefighters next fiscal year, bringing the total number of firefighters almost 10,000. \u003ca href=\"https://eservices.calhr.ca.gov/enterprisehrblazorpublic/public/api/MOU/GetPublicDocumentContentByID?DocumentIdentifier=8926a1bc-88b3-40e9-9585-fa00c065083f\">Cal Fire had about 5,800 firefighters\u003c/a> just seven years ago. 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By eliminating those positions, the state saves $1.2 billion, Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also projects lower spending in state prisons even though it expects California’s incarcerated population to increase in the short term because of the sentencing changes voters approved when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/retail-theft-proposition-36-election/\">they passed Proposition 36\u003c/a> in November. Newsom’s budget would cut corrections spending by $400 million, bringing it down to $13.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the cuts took hold last summer, but Newsom is going forward with slashing state support to the University of California and California State University by nearly 8% in 2025–26 — a combined hit of $772 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time,” said Cal State’s chancellor, Mildred Garcia, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For UC, the cuts and delays mean that the system will end up with $400 million more in state support in 2027–28 than it got in 2023–24. Ongoing increases to tuition also will bring in more money. But, with growing labor and academic costs to teach its students of roughly half a billion dollars annually, the UC told CalMatters that it expects to see a revenue shortfall of more than $700 million in 2027–28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='education' label='More Education Coverage']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am disappointed reductions have been proposed in both the University of California and California State University budgets. We will explore ways to restore these cuts, particularly to the CSUs,” said John Sen. Laird, the Santa Cruz Democrat who is the chairperson the budget committee that oversees education spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student financial aid remains mostly untouched in the budget plan. The state’s flagship tuition waiver program, the Cal Grant, remains unscathed — a $2.6 billion behemoth benefiting more than 400,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public K–12 education and community colleges would be fully funded under Newsom’s proposal. 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That’s about \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/reference/MultiYearProjection.pdf\">$10 billion more\u003c/a> than what his office and lawmakers predicted last June and roughly $17 billion more than what’s in this year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom’s also sticking to last year’s deal with the Legislature to \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/Introduction.pdf#page=2\">pull $7.1 billion\u003c/a> from the state’s main reserve account — even though his office projected on Monday that revenues are up by $16.5 billion more than planned across a three-year budget window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/roger-niello-165442\">Roger Niello\u003c/a>, a Republican representing Roseville, criticized Newsom’s plan to continue drawing from reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking about increased revenues and a relatively strong economy, and yet we have to pull from reserves, which doesn’t make sense to a lot of people,” said Niello, the top Republican on the Senate budget committee. “And it also kind of doesn’t make sense that you’re talking about actually having a surplus when you had to pull from the reserves to create that surplus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New homeless agency, free diapers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Those conditions allowed Newsom to make several new proposals, including creating a state agency to better coordinate homelessness and housing policies. The administration did not propose new spending on homelessness, and it did not release details on how it would reorganize existing departments under the agency Newsom envisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finance Director Joe Stepenshaw said the spending plan proposes just $1.2 billion in new funding. “There is very limited new commitments in this budget,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Most state revenue comes from personal income tax\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The personal income Californians pay accounts for about 60% of money that goes toward the state’s general fund. Corporate taxes as well as sales and use taxes make up another third. \u003cem>General fund revenue by source for the past three budget years\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Owxvx/4/\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n In a small item that could make a meaningful difference to new parents, Newsom wants to spend $7.4 million to provide a three month supply of diapers for newborns. He also seeks to \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/TK-12Education.pdf#page=7\">add $40 million in funds\u003c/a> for schools to screen students for reading difficulties, including dyslexia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wants to add 700 firefighters next fiscal year, bringing the total number of firefighters almost 10,000. \u003ca href=\"https://eservices.calhr.ca.gov/enterprisehrblazorpublic/public/api/MOU/GetPublicDocumentContentByID?DocumentIdentifier=8926a1bc-88b3-40e9-9585-fa00c065083f\">Cal Fire had about 5,800 firefighters\u003c/a> just seven years ago. The state has been increasing their headcount because of the growing intensity of California wildfires to accommodate contract changes that are meant to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2022/12/cal-fire-labor-contract/\">give firefighters better schedules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, voters gave Newsom more flexibility last year when they approved three substantial bonds, which allow the state to borrow money and repay it over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the budget includes $2.7 billion in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/11/california-election-news-proposition-4-environment/\">new climate spending\u003c/a> stemming from Proposition 4; $8.5 billion for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/11/california-election-result-prop-2/\">school facilities\u003c/a> thanks to Proposition 2; and $6.4 billion for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/mental-health/2024/05/mental-health-housing-proposition-1/\">mental health housing\u003c/a> from Proposition 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A prison guard in uniform stands in front of a gate with a building in the background.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/230726-SAN-QUENTIN-MHN-24-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entry gate at San Quentin State Prison on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Lower spending on prisons, tight budgets for UC and Cal State\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Still, the balanced budget rests on proceeding with cuts to many state programs that Newsom and the Legislature agreed to last June, including a 7.95% cut in operational budget to nearly all state agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said earlier this week that his administration has been tightening spending, including by eliminating 6,500 vacant positions. By eliminating those positions, the state saves $1.2 billion, Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration also projects lower spending in state prisons even though it expects California’s incarcerated population to increase in the short term because of the sentencing changes voters approved when \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/11/retail-theft-proposition-36-election/\">they passed Proposition 36\u003c/a> in November. Newsom’s budget would cut corrections spending by $400 million, bringing it down to $13.6 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the cuts took hold last summer, but Newsom is going forward with slashing state support to the University of California and California State University by nearly 8% in 2025–26 — a combined hit of $772 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and a reduced workforce will hinder students’ ability to graduate on time,” said Cal State’s chancellor, Mildred Garcia, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For UC, the cuts and delays mean that the system will end up with $400 million more in state support in 2027–28 than it got in 2023–24. Ongoing increases to tuition also will bring in more money. But, with growing labor and academic costs to teach its students of roughly half a billion dollars annually, the UC told CalMatters that it expects to see a revenue shortfall of more than $700 million in 2027–28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am disappointed reductions have been proposed in both the University of California and California State University budgets. We will explore ways to restore these cuts, particularly to the CSUs,” said John Sen. Laird, the Santa Cruz Democrat who is the chairperson the budget committee that oversees education spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student financial aid remains mostly untouched in the budget plan. The state’s flagship tuition waiver program, the Cal Grant, remains unscathed — a $2.6 billion behemoth benefiting more than 400,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public K–12 education and community colleges would be fully funded under Newsom’s proposal. Newsom intends to proceed with fully funding the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2024/07/transitional-kindergarten/\">expanded early education programming\u003c/a>, transitional kindergarten, to all eligible 4-year-olds. His budget would mean the \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/TK-12Education.pdf#page=4\">second largest amount of state support\u003c/a> for K–12 and community colleges. About half of the state’s general fund \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/budget/2025-26/#/BudgetDetail\">supports education\u003c/a>, and most of that flows to public K–12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget includes \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2025-26/pdf/BudgetSummary/HigherEducation.pdf#page=3\">$100 million in new money\u003c/a> to help community colleges provide students with course credit for prior work experience. The end goal in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/12/job-training/\">his master plan for career education\u003c/a> is to overhaul the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2024/09/trade-schools-job-training-california/\">convoluted job training programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Asking voters to put more money in reserves\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget proposal includes $17 billion in reserves. But, he cautioned, the state may decide to set aside more money because of the economic uncertainty his administration anticipates from Trump’s trade and immigration policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly why his office wants to raise the cap on how much money the state can deposit to its rainy day fund. As a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article5369607.html\">result of Proposition 2\u003c/a> — a ballot measure approved by voters in 2014 — the state is required to make deposits until the balance reaches 10% of the state’s general fund tax revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the budget presentation, Stephenshaw said Newsom wants to up the limit to 20%. That change would require voters to pass a ballot measure allowing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Simply without precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/03/newsom-jargon-pandemic-economy/\">a man of many superlatives\u003c/a>, but even he seemed to struggle today to adequately describe just how much extra cash the state of California will have to spend in the coming year’s budget: $97.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press conference in Sacramento, Newsom unveiled his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/05/13/governor-newsom-presents-300-7-billion-blueprint-paving-the-california-way-forward/\">latest record spending proposal\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year. Riding a superheating economy and drawing disproportionately from the state’s highest earners, the state is now projected to have a surplus bigger than California — or any state — has ever had, and significantly more than the $76 billion that the governor predicted in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly half of the surplus is required by law to be spent on education. That leaves “only” roughly $49 billion in discretionary money, and the governor wants to reserve 99% of that for one-time spending: $18.1 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/05/12/governor-newsom-proposes-18-1-billion-inflation-relief-package/\">to provide financial relief\u003c/a> for Californians buffeted by inflation, plus $37 billion for infrastructure investments, including $5.6 billion for education facility upgrades, and an extra $2.3 billion for the ongoing fight against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">few of the other big numbers\u003c/a> that Newsom mentioned today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$128.3 billion in education spending, from transitional kindergarten through high school, a record-breaking sum that works out to $22,850 per student.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Another $23 billion will be parked into the state’s rainy day fund, to be drawn upon the next time the economy slows\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$2.5 billion for housing, including $500 million to fund the conversion of vacant malls and storefronts into homes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An extra $3.4 billion to pay down state employee retirement debt\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The massive windfall that the state is sitting on, coupled with the state’s progressive tax system is a sign of “the concentration of wealth and success in the hands of a few that are enjoying abundance in historic and unprecedented ways,” Newsom said. “I am proud of California’s progressive tax system…and we’re the beneficiary of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the ball is in the state Legislature’s court as lawmakers decide where they agree with the governor and which priorities they want to haggle over before the June 15 deadline to pass a final, balanced budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s “May revise” rollout is part of the annual call-and-response between the governor’s office and the Legislature over how to spend your tax dollars. Each year, the governor sets the negotiations in motion in January with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">preliminary budget proposal\u003c/a>. This year, Newsom’s proffer included a record surge in K-12 education spending, along with multi-billion dollar proposals to ramp up the state’s wildfire prevention projects, convert more vacant hotels into housing for the homeless and open up Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for the poor, to all undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Newsom unveiled today is a retake on that earlier budget blueprint, but freshened up with new estimates of the state’s fiscal future. Tack on the extra surplus money and you end up with a new record-high total: $300.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/9979834/embed#?secret=2LNgNb0NXP%C2%A0\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing money on the scale of the California state budget, it’s easy to lose perspective. But to be clear, even by Golden State standards, that is an astounding amount of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What a difference two years makes. In May 2020, with the state still weathering the first surge of COVID-19, the governor’s Department of Finance projected a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/05/newsom-economic-forecast-criticism-california-model-recession-budget/\">$54 billion deficit and a year of Great Depression-level unemployment rates\u003c/a>. Neither came to pass, just the opposite: Boosted by rosy \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/california-budget-depends-on-staggering-wealth-gap/\">economic conditions for the state’s highest earners\u003c/a> and a massive influx of cash from the federal government, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/01/newsoms-record-breaking-budget-proposal/\">state coffers have been overflowing\u003c/a> for the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the governor and Democratic leadership in the Assembly and Senate, having to divvy up billions of new dollars during an election year is a good problem to have. But on financial aid to struggling families, the scale of the state’s drought response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-05-13/california-politics-newsletter-gambling-taxes-will-dominate-november-ballot-ca-politics\">what to do about the sky-high price of gasoline\u003c/a> and other pressing policy conundrums, not everyone is on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-budget\"]Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon kept his cards close to his chest in a statement, simply heralding his Democratic “teammates” in the Senate. “We know how to work together to present Governor Gavin Newsom with a budget he can be proud to sign by the constitutional deadline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/sites/default/files/Caucus%202022%20Wilk%20May%20Revise%20Budget%20Priorities.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=ebdd812119-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-ebdd812119-150256405&mc_cid=ebdd812119&mc_eid=498adde128\"> Republican minority in the Legislature\u003c/a> is so diminished that Democrats don’t need their support to pass a budget. But that isn’t stopping GOP lawmakers from weighing in, if only to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cagop.org/s/blog/ca-dems-ignore-the-obvious-MCZ2N2HI7YLFCAHEWHK6DQ7YEG3Q\">provide voters with a clear contrast\u003c/a> as Election Day approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom specializes in grand announcements and flashy sounding proposals, but he rarely follows through with effective solutions that actually help California families,” GOP Assembly leader James Gallagher from Chico said in a statement. “As Californians struggle to fill their tank and put food on the table, Democrats fail to provide any real solutions to cut costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are other highlights from the governor’s latest spending plan:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cash for Californians\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If the average Californian hears anything about today’s announcement it’s probably this: The governor wants to send $400 to most of the state’s car owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the governor’s idea to help drivers bear the cost of historically elevated gas prices. In the face of pushback from environmentalists, he also wants to throw in $750 million to entice transit agencies to make bus and rail travel free for three months. And lest he be accused to throwing money at those who don’t need it, the proposal is limited to drivers whose car are worth under an unspecified cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that, there’s some distance between this proposal and the Legislature’s, where Democratic leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-18/california-senate-assembly-weigh-refund-possibilities-amid-rising-gas-costs#:~:text=Gavin%20Newsom's%20proposal%20to%20offer,each%20California%20taxpayer%20and%20dependent.\">want to send cash rebates to Californians\u003c/a> making less than $250,000, car owners or not. And it’s even further still from the GOP plan, which is simply to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/04/california-gas-rebate/\">suspend the state gas tax\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have all the confidence in the world we’ll be able to square those modest differences and we’ll come around to a number and a strategy that’s in the best interests of Californians,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s announcement also answered another big question left unaddressed by the January proposal: Will an obscure amendment inserted into the California Constitution in 1979 compel the state to reroute some of the state’s extra cash back to taxpayers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, at least for now, appears to be no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutional provision in question, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/newsom-tax-rebate/\">Gann Limit\u003c/a>, was approved by voters during the heyday of the state’s conservative “tax revolt” and capped per-person state spending to its 1978 level, after adjusting for inflation. Anything left over has to be sent back to taxpayers and school districts. With the state’s coffers as full as they are, the January budget blueprint projected that the state would breach the cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with more spending on exempt types of expenditure, including infrastructure, the current plan is now $2.6 billion below that ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-eat-your-heart-out-texas\">‘Eat your heart out, Texas’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Budgets, as the cliche goes, are statements of values. Newsom clearly values \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/02/california-crime-abortion-guns/\">decrying the state of Texas\u003c/a> and its right-wing government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the policies-cum-anti-Texas-digs that Newsom rolled out today were a revision of the state’s business relocation tax credit program to provide “additional consideration” for businesses relocating from states with anti-abortion and “anti-LGBTQ+” laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The context, only barely unspoken, is that Texas has recently passed a law that effectively \u003ca href=\"https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf\">bans most abortions\u003c/a> and introduced a policy that treats gender-confirming care for transgender kids \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/13/1098779201/texas-supreme-court-transgender-gender-affirming-child-abuse\">as child abuse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget plan also include an additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/05/11/governor-newsom-proposes-reproductive-health-package-to-strengthen-protections-expand-access-and-welcome-businesses-from-anti-abortion-states/\">$125 million to expand access to abortions\u003c/a> and fund research into reproductive health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do want to make a deep point here: California is a pro-life state,” Newsom said, appropriating a term used by the anti-abortion movement to tout his proposed spending on expanded preschool, health insurance access and gun-violence reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also chided Arizona, Florida and Texas for having COVID death rates higher than California’s: “There are a lot of folks out there that are pro- conception to birth but that fall wholly short of being pro-life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Grace Gedye contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“Simply without precedent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/03/newsom-jargon-pandemic-economy/\">a man of many superlatives\u003c/a>, but even he seemed to struggle today to adequately describe just how much extra cash the state of California will have to spend in the coming year’s budget: $97.5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press conference in Sacramento, Newsom unveiled his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/05/13/governor-newsom-presents-300-7-billion-blueprint-paving-the-california-way-forward/\">latest record spending proposal\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year. Riding a superheating economy and drawing disproportionately from the state’s highest earners, the state is now projected to have a surplus bigger than California — or any state — has ever had, and significantly more than the $76 billion that the governor predicted in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly half of the surplus is required by law to be spent on education. That leaves “only” roughly $49 billion in discretionary money, and the governor wants to reserve 99% of that for one-time spending: $18.1 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/05/12/governor-newsom-proposes-18-1-billion-inflation-relief-package/\">to provide financial relief\u003c/a> for Californians buffeted by inflation, plus $37 billion for infrastructure investments, including $5.6 billion for education facility upgrades, and an extra $2.3 billion for the ongoing fight against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">few of the other big numbers\u003c/a> that Newsom mentioned today:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$128.3 billion in education spending, from transitional kindergarten through high school, a record-breaking sum that works out to $22,850 per student.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Another $23 billion will be parked into the state’s rainy day fund, to be drawn upon the next time the economy slows\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$2.5 billion for housing, including $500 million to fund the conversion of vacant malls and storefronts into homes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An extra $3.4 billion to pay down state employee retirement debt\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The massive windfall that the state is sitting on, coupled with the state’s progressive tax system is a sign of “the concentration of wealth and success in the hands of a few that are enjoying abundance in historic and unprecedented ways,” Newsom said. “I am proud of California’s progressive tax system…and we’re the beneficiary of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the ball is in the state Legislature’s court as lawmakers decide where they agree with the governor and which priorities they want to haggle over before the June 15 deadline to pass a final, balanced budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s “May revise” rollout is part of the annual call-and-response between the governor’s office and the Legislature over how to spend your tax dollars. Each year, the governor sets the negotiations in motion in January with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">preliminary budget proposal\u003c/a>. This year, Newsom’s proffer included a record surge in K-12 education spending, along with multi-billion dollar proposals to ramp up the state’s wildfire prevention projects, convert more vacant hotels into housing for the homeless and open up Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for the poor, to all undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Newsom unveiled today is a retake on that earlier budget blueprint, but freshened up with new estimates of the state’s fiscal future. Tack on the extra surplus money and you end up with a new record-high total: $300.7 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/9979834/embed#?secret=2LNgNb0NXP%C2%A0\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When discussing money on the scale of the California state budget, it’s easy to lose perspective. But to be clear, even by Golden State standards, that is an astounding amount of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What a difference two years makes. In May 2020, with the state still weathering the first surge of COVID-19, the governor’s Department of Finance projected a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2020/05/newsom-economic-forecast-criticism-california-model-recession-budget/\">$54 billion deficit and a year of Great Depression-level unemployment rates\u003c/a>. Neither came to pass, just the opposite: Boosted by rosy \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/california-budget-depends-on-staggering-wealth-gap/\">economic conditions for the state’s highest earners\u003c/a> and a massive influx of cash from the federal government, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/01/newsoms-record-breaking-budget-proposal/\">state coffers have been overflowing\u003c/a> for the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the governor and Democratic leadership in the Assembly and Senate, having to divvy up billions of new dollars during an election year is a good problem to have. But on financial aid to struggling families, the scale of the state’s drought response, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-05-13/california-politics-newsletter-gambling-taxes-will-dominate-november-ballot-ca-politics\">what to do about the sky-high price of gasoline\u003c/a> and other pressing policy conundrums, not everyone is on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon kept his cards close to his chest in a statement, simply heralding his Democratic “teammates” in the Senate. “We know how to work together to present Governor Gavin Newsom with a budget he can be proud to sign by the constitutional deadline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://cssrc.us/sites/default/files/Caucus%202022%20Wilk%20May%20Revise%20Budget%20Priorities.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=ebdd812119-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-ebdd812119-150256405&mc_cid=ebdd812119&mc_eid=498adde128\"> Republican minority in the Legislature\u003c/a> is so diminished that Democrats don’t need their support to pass a budget. But that isn’t stopping GOP lawmakers from weighing in, if only to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cagop.org/s/blog/ca-dems-ignore-the-obvious-MCZ2N2HI7YLFCAHEWHK6DQ7YEG3Q\">provide voters with a clear contrast\u003c/a> as Election Day approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom specializes in grand announcements and flashy sounding proposals, but he rarely follows through with effective solutions that actually help California families,” GOP Assembly leader James Gallagher from Chico said in a statement. “As Californians struggle to fill their tank and put food on the table, Democrats fail to provide any real solutions to cut costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are other highlights from the governor’s latest spending plan:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cash for Californians\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If the average Californian hears anything about today’s announcement it’s probably this: The governor wants to send $400 to most of the state’s car owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s been the governor’s idea to help drivers bear the cost of historically elevated gas prices. In the face of pushback from environmentalists, he also wants to throw in $750 million to entice transit agencies to make bus and rail travel free for three months. And lest he be accused to throwing money at those who don’t need it, the proposal is limited to drivers whose car are worth under an unspecified cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that, there’s some distance between this proposal and the Legislature’s, where Democratic leaders \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-18/california-senate-assembly-weigh-refund-possibilities-amid-rising-gas-costs#:~:text=Gavin%20Newsom's%20proposal%20to%20offer,each%20California%20taxpayer%20and%20dependent.\">want to send cash rebates to Californians\u003c/a> making less than $250,000, car owners or not. And it’s even further still from the GOP plan, which is simply to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/04/california-gas-rebate/\">suspend the state gas tax\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have all the confidence in the world we’ll be able to square those modest differences and we’ll come around to a number and a strategy that’s in the best interests of Californians,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s announcement also answered another big question left unaddressed by the January proposal: Will an obscure amendment inserted into the California Constitution in 1979 compel the state to reroute some of the state’s extra cash back to taxpayers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, at least for now, appears to be no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constitutional provision in question, the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/newsom-tax-rebate/\">Gann Limit\u003c/a>, was approved by voters during the heyday of the state’s conservative “tax revolt” and capped per-person state spending to its 1978 level, after adjusting for inflation. Anything left over has to be sent back to taxpayers and school districts. With the state’s coffers as full as they are, the January budget blueprint projected that the state would breach the cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with more spending on exempt types of expenditure, including infrastructure, the current plan is now $2.6 billion below that ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 id=\"h-eat-your-heart-out-texas\">‘Eat your heart out, Texas’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Budgets, as the cliche goes, are statements of values. Newsom clearly values \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/02/california-crime-abortion-guns/\">decrying the state of Texas\u003c/a> and its right-wing government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the policies-cum-anti-Texas-digs that Newsom rolled out today were a revision of the state’s business relocation tax credit program to provide “additional consideration” for businesses relocating from states with anti-abortion and “anti-LGBTQ+” laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The context, only barely unspoken, is that Texas has recently passed a law that effectively \u003ca href=\"https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/SB00008F.pdf\">bans most abortions\u003c/a> and introduced a policy that treats gender-confirming care for transgender kids \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/05/13/1098779201/texas-supreme-court-transgender-gender-affirming-child-abuse\">as child abuse\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s budget plan also include an additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/05/11/governor-newsom-proposes-reproductive-health-package-to-strengthen-protections-expand-access-and-welcome-businesses-from-anti-abortion-states/\">$125 million to expand access to abortions\u003c/a> and fund research into reproductive health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do want to make a deep point here: California is a pro-life state,” Newsom said, appropriating a term used by the anti-abortion movement to tout his proposed spending on expanded preschool, health insurance access and gun-violence reduction programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also chided Arizona, Florida and Texas for having COVID death rates higher than California’s: “There are a lot of folks out there that are pro- conception to birth but that fall wholly short of being pro-life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California is on track to have so much money that state officials will likely have to give even more of it back to taxpayers to meet constitutional limits on state spending, according to a new forecast from the state’s independent Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s annual “Fiscal Outlook,” released Wednesday, predicts a $31 billion surplus for the 2022 budget year that begins July 1. The analyst’s office says state is on pace to have so much money that it could exceed a constitutional limit on state spending by $26 billion over three years. That could require Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers to either cut taxes, spend more money on infrastructure or — perhaps the most popular choice in an election year — give rebates to taxpayers and spend more on public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think it will … turn out to be a pretty significant issue for the Legislature to consider in this coming budget process,” Legislative Analyst Gabe Petek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom won’t reveal his budget proposal until January. But on Wednesday, the governor indicated his favored giving some of the money back to taxpayers. That’s what he and the state Legislature did earlier this year, approving rebates totaling $12 billion for some taxpayers in a state budget that was also projected to exceed the spending limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How we framed that historic surplus last year, similarly, we will frame our approach this year,” Newsom said during a news conference at the Port of Long Beach. “I’m very proud of the historic tax rebate last year, and I look forward to making the decision that I think is in the best interests of 40 million Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s tax collections have continued to soar despite the pandemic. From April through June of this year, California businesses reported a record high $216.8 billion in taxable sales — a 38.8% increase over the same period in 2020 and a 17.4% increase over those months in pre-pandemic 2019. Nick Maduros, director of the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, said it is “a sign that business owners found creative ways to adapt during a difficult year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, collections from taxes on income, sales and corporations were 40% higher than September of last year and almost 60% higher than September 2019. That’s because retail sales have seen double digit-growth this year and stock prices have doubled from their low point at the start of the pandemic last spring.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Gov. Gavin Newsom']‘I’m very proud of the historic tax rebate last year, and I look forward to making the decision that I think is in the best interests of 40 million Californians.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the LAO said it’s impossible to know whether these gains are sustainable. Prices for goods and services are going up because of inflation. In October, the nationwide growth in retail sales of 1.7% was mostly because prices rose 0.9% during that same time period, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Gas prices grew even faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most of the state’s wealthier workers kept their jobs and kept paying taxes during the pandemic, the state’s lower-wage workers were hit hard by government-ordered closures of restaurants and other public spaces. More than 18 months into the pandemic, California is tied for the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 7.5%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something wrong when the state is flush with extra cash — $750 for every man, woman and child — while ordinary people have to choose between putting food on the table and filling their gas tank,” Assembly Republican Leader Marie Waldron said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s “budget year” runs from July 1 to June 30. During the first three months of this budget year, California tax collections are more than $10 billion ahead of projections. The LAO predicts that by June 2022, California will have collected $28 billion more in taxes and transfers than officials had expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means there will likely be a significant increase in spending on public schools. The state Constitution requires lawmakers to spend about 40% of state tax collections on public education each year. The LAO said Wednesday that means public schools and community colleges could see an $11 billion increase.[aside postID='news_11876711,news_11874125' label='Related Posts']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s strong fiscal health is not an accident. It is the direct result of a decade of responsible budgeting by Democratic legislators and governors that enabled the state to survive the pandemic downturn,” said state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite California’s wealth, Atkins said “too many families struggle just to get by.” She said the Legislature will “work to craft transformative priorities that put California’s wealth to work building a more equitable economy and a stronger middle class.”\u003cbr>\nNewsom said Wednesday he’d like to put most of the surplus either in the state’s savings account or spend it on one-time items that don’t require ongoing funding “so that we’re not caught flat-footed when the economy contracts, when the markets begin to adjust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to substantially increase our one-time investments in infrastructure,” Newsom said. “That’s one (budget) preview you can count on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislative Analyst’s Office says most economic forecasters predict inflation will slow down by next year but conceded that prediction “comes with significant uncertainty.” While the LAO is predicting a $31 billion surplus, it could be as low as $10 billion or as high as $60 billion depending on how much money the state collects from taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the numbers hold, the LAO says California could have as much as $21 billion in its main savings account, or about 10% of all general fund revenues and transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Associated Press writer Michael R. 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"content": "\u003cp>Amid a pandemic that has pushed millions of \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/moms-work-and-the-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mothers out of the workplace\u003c/a>, caused \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-24/obamacare-made-iuds-affordable-one-reason-behind-californias-covid-baby-bust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fertility rates to plunge\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2779182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heightened the risk of death for pregnant women\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democratic lawmakers are seeking a slate of health proposals for low-income families and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, a self-described feminist and the father of four young children, has long advocated family-friendly health and economic policies. Flush with a projected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874125/californias-historic-budget-surplus-is-it-76-billion-or-38-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget surplus of $75.7 billion\u003c/a>, state politicians have come up with myriad legislative and budget proposals to make poorer families healthier and wealthier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens)\"]‘We don’t need to balance the budget on half of the population that has a uterus.’[/pullquote]They include ending sales taxes on \u003ca href=\"https://esd.dof.ca.gov/dofpublic/public/trailerBill/pdf/414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">menstrual products and diapers\u003c/a>; adding benefits such as doulas and early childhood trauma screenings to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program; allowing pregnant women to retain Medi-Cal coverage for a year after giving birth; and a pilot program to provide a universal basic income to low-income new parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID-19 laid inequity bare for all to see,” Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles) said in a written statement. She is the co-author of Senate Bill 65, led by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), which would pour hundreds of millions of dollars into family and health care programs annually, focusing on minority groups that Carrillo said were “pushed out of the social safety net by the prior White House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the Democratic-controlled legislature are unified on major health care and social safety-net expansions, which would direct billions in health benefits and cash assistance to the state’s most vulnerable residents and low-income parents. Legislative Democrats for years have pushed a progressive agenda to help struggling parents and families, featuring proposals like those to permanently end taxes on menstrual products and diapers — \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected to cost the state millions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need to balance the budget on half of the population that has a uterus,” said Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/05/07/newsom-to-unveil-may-budget-thursday-with-focus-on-low-income-families-1009021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for years sought an end\u003c/a> to the “pink tax” on diapers and menstrual products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, chair of the Senate budget committee, is among the powerful lawmakers who’ve put forward legislation to make childbirth safer and parenthood more affordable. Her bill, which cleared the Senate and was up for consideration this week in the state Assembly, has several features that would dramatically expand maternal health care (transgender men also get pregnant and give birth).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='childbirth' label='Maternity in California']Before the pandemic, Medi-Cal covered mothers only up to 60 days after their pregnancies ended unless their income fell below a certain line or they had a mental health diagnosis. Skinner’s bill, part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/expanding-postpartum-medicaid-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broader national push\u003c/a> to improve birth outcomes, would expand full Medi-Cal coverage to 12 months after the end of a pregnancy. Other \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parts of the bill\u003c/a> would intensify state reporting and reviews of fetal and pregnancy-related deaths and severe maternal morbidity, expand housing benefits for families that have a pregnant member, and increase training programs for midwives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s $268 billion budget blueprint includes about $200 million a year to fully implement the expansion of Medi-Cal coverage for new mothers, with matching dollars from the federal government until those funds expire in 2027. If the expansion were not renewed, the state would revert to previous Medi-Cal qualifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2019-edition-maternity-care-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medi-Cal covered 45% of all births\u003c/a> in California in 2017, the last year for which data could be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not all postpartum issues end at 60 days, and when patients lose insurance, we can’t address them in the usual way,” said Dr. Yen Truong, an OB-GYN who works with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on legislative issues in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of pregnancy-related deaths occur during the pregnancy or on the day of delivery, but about 12% take place \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6818e1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">between seven weeks and a year\u003c/a> after giving birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. had 17.4 early maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018, according to the most recent CDC data with state figures. California’s rate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/MMR-2018-State-Data-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11.7 per 100,000\u003c/a>, was among the lowest in the nation, but the state collects data on maternal deaths in a way that could result in underestimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s overall numbers also obscure stark racial disparities. Statewide, Black infants averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/CDPH%20Document%20Library/CHSP_2021_ADA_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7.8 deaths per 1,000 live births\u003c/a>, compared with an average of three deaths among white babies. Data from 2013 from \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/owh/docs/DataReport/2017-HealthIndicatorsforWomeninLACounty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a> showed Black women had pregnancy-related deaths at rates more than four times as high as the overall rate in the state’s largest county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our state’s wealth and medical advancements, this is unacceptable,” Skinner, vice chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also appear unified on another aspect of Skinner’s bill: a pilot program to test a universal basic income program for struggling families. The bill would give $1,000 a month to low-income expectant and new parents with kids under 2 years old in counties that decide to participate. Newsom has also proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$35 million over five years\u003c/a> for pilot programs for universal basic income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rose Kapolczynski, a campaign consultant\"]‘The budget surplus is allowing many things that were called impossible to be possible, and that includes health care bills.’[/pullquote]These issues could play well, especially among women, and improve Newsom’s standing going into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875264/new-poll-shows-support-idling-for-newsom-recall-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recall election\u003c/a> later this year, said Rose Kapolczynski, a longtime campaign consultant to former U.S. Sen. 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