Anyone surprised? I'm not, after all it is DemocRAT run California.-- Rep. Vince Fong, R-Calif., will introduce legislation on Tuesday that would require California to pay its outstanding $21 billion loan to the federal government before spending federal money on other programs. -- California is the only state that has not paid back its loans for a COVID-19-era program that helped states finance a surge in claims for unemployment benefits with federal money. Instead, the state's federal unemployment debt continues to climb and is projected to top $23 billion by the end of the year -- Fong argues the failure to pay off the massive debt has been detrimental to the state’s employers, who have been forced to help repay the loans through automatic tax hikes. Businesses were forced to pay an extra $42 per employee on their federal payroll taxes this year to help service the unpaid debt -- "Fraud and mismanagement aren’t isolated incidents in Gavin Newsom’s California — they’ve become systemic failures with real consequences," Fong said in a statement. "Rather than using the state’s past $98 billion budget surplus to pay down that debt, Sacramento shifted the burden onto employers through automatic payroll tax hikes. Enough is enough." -- The Trump administration announced last week that it would withhold $1.3 billion in federal Medicaid funding to California, citing fraud concerns among the state’s myriad hospice providers. -- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-bill-targets-blue-state-billions-covid-era-unemployment-debt-dumped-businesses
