Edso - how do you like your Governor now? -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Democrat, of course) bragged about a huge budget surplus during the COVID lockdowns and made big promises to his core constituencies about how they were going to use that money. For many reasons (pandemic unemployment fraud, gross mismanagement, huge tax base losses) that surplus isn't just gone; the state has such a large shortfall that some agencies were ordered to stop ordering office supplies. -- Last year, despite loud warnings about the cost from (most) California Republicans and anyone else with a brain, Newsom and his band of virtue-signaling Democrats made Medi-Cal available to illegal aliens in the state - and now Medi-Cal is bankrupt and Newsom's asking the legislature for $6.2 billion just to keep it solvent through the end of the fiscal year. -- Where will that money Newsom's requesting come from? The state's general fund will probably be raided, and monies earmarked for other things (most likely from the $10 billion "climate change" bond voters approved last year, so not from anything important) will be diverted to pay for this boondoggle. -- Seriously, Newsom can't get a single thing right. He can't name a single policy success. His financial estimates constantly overestimate revenue and underestimate cost. Yet, he's off convening special sessions to allocate money we don't have to "Trump-proof" the state, recording podcasts with Tampon Tim, and stoking fear that Medicaid/Medi-Cal will be destroyed. Well, as far as California goes, that might be true, but it will be his fault, not Trump's. -- https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/03/19/after-expanding-coverage-to-illegal-aliens-californias-medi-cal-is-62-billion-short-n2186777
