Sacramento, California (AP)-California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a budget that demanded many progressive priorities, including important health care development for low-income adults for low-income immigrants without legal status to close 12 billion dollars.
This is the third year in a row that the population has been forced to reduce funding or stop some Democratic leadership support programs. The legislators accepted the budget earlier on the day when the agreement between Newsom and Democratic leaders was $ 321 billion.
However, the whole budget will be invalid if legislators do not send him laws to facilitate building housing until Monday.
The budget avoids the reduction of some of the most devastating essential safety in cash, state leaders said. They were mostly relied on by the use of state savings, borrowing from special funds and deferred payments to connect a budget hole.
“It is balanced, maintains large reserves and focuses on maintaining the Californians,” Newsom said in a budget report.
California also faces potential federal reductions in health care programs and a broad economic uncertainty that can make even deeper reductions. May Newsom estimated that federal policy, including rates and immigration, could reduce state tax revenue by $ 16 billion.
“We had to make some difficult decisions,” the Senate President Pro tempne Mike McGuire said on Friday. “I know we’re not going to like everyone, but we do it without any new taxes for the daily Californians.”
Republican lawmakers said they had a budget negotiation. They also criticized Democrats for not sufficient enough to resolve the future deficit, which can range from $ 17 billion to $ 24 billion a year.
“We are increasing borrowing, depriving us of the rain day fund and not diminishing our expenses,” said Tony Strickland, the elder of the Republican state. “And this budget also does nothing about affordability in California.”
The costs of the main areas are reviewed here:
Health care
According to the budget agreement, California will cease to involve new adult patients without legal status in their state -funded health care program for low -income people who begin in 2026 will also implement the state in 3027. In July In July The bonuses will apply to adults under 60 years.
The program changes known as Medi-C is May. Newsom’s Newsom version. However, this is a big blow to an ambitious program launched last year to help state inches closer to the global health care goal.
The old Maria Elena Duraz of the democratic state broke with her party and voted “no” about health care changes, calling them the betrayal of immigrant communities.
The transaction also removes $ 78 million. USD funding for mental health telephone lines, including a program that served 100,000 people each year. This will eliminate funding that will help you pay for dental services to low -income people in 2026. And delay the implementation of the law requiring health insurance to cover fertility services from six months to 2026.
However, the lawmakers also successfully retreated from a number of Newsom’s proposed reductions, which they called Draconian.
The transaction ensures funding for the program providing domestic and personal care services to some low -income residents and Californians with disabilities. It also avoids the reduction of the planned parenting.
The environment
The legislators agreed to allow the state to use $ 1 billion. The Cap-And Trade program is a market-based system to reduce carbon emissions. Companies have to buy credits to contaminate, and this money is included in the fund laws, who should use climate -related costs.
Newsom wanted to repeat the program until 2045, with a guarantee that $ 1 billion would be on a long -term high -speed rail project every year. The budget is not committed because the lawmakers wanted to remove expenditure plans outside the budget process. The Rail Project is currently receiving 25% Cap-Sand Trade revenue, which is about $ 1 billion every year, depending on a year.
Legislative leaders have also confirmed funding to help firefighters who do not work full -time. Many state -owned firefighters work only for nine months each year, which, according to lawmakers, are damaging the potential for the state to prevent fires and fight fires. This transaction is $ 10 million to increase daily salary for imprisoned firefighters, who currently earn from $ 5.80 to $ 10.24 a day.
Public security
The budget agreement will grant $ 80 million to implement strict initiative to implement voters last year. The measure causes repeated criminals in stores, increases fines for some drug charges, and gives judges to command the people who are subject to multiple drugs to treatment.
Most of the fund, $ 50 million, will help in counties more behavioral beds. Probation officers will receive $ 15 million for the provision of pre -trial services and the courts will receive $ 20 million to support increased cases.
Proponents of the measure, including bristles, district lawyers and probation officers, said that there was not enough money. Some estimate that the first year of the program will take about $ 400 million.
Other priorities
Newsom and lawmakers agreed to increase the state film tax credit from $ 330 million. USD up to $ 750 million USD every year to increase Hollywood. The program, Newsom’s priority, will begin this year and will end in 2030.
The budget provides $ 10 million to help support immigration legal services, including defense deportation.
However, cities and counties will not see a new funding to help them deal with homelessness next year, which, according to local leaders, may lose thousands of shelter beds.
The budget also does not take the Newsom offer to simplify the project to create a mass underground tunnel to transmit a large part of the state water supply.