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When governor Gavin Newo presented a processed state budget Last week he annoyed – and perhaps alienated – the main interest groups, allied with his Democratic Party.

They flooded the incoming mail of reporters with critical reaction statements requiring the cost reductions he said were needed to cover significant deficits and other aspects of the budget to be blocked.

The strongest reactions come from the defenders of the poor and the elderly. They have determined the Newsom plan yes Scaped Extension of Medi-Cal Health care for undocumented immigrants, which he supports last year, as well as its imposition of $ 100 monthly premiums, eliminating some benefits, limits home care and stricter benefits qualifications.

“The 2025-26 budget proposal has failed to transfer the resources needed to help vulnerable Californians to meet basic needs such as health care, housing and food assistance,” said the left -wing California Center and a Policies Center. “It also does not reach the bold answer needed by California leaders against the backdrop of unprecedented federal threats and economic uncertainty.”

However, there are also adverse reactions by the unions of public officials about Newsom’s intention to hold a promotion of state workers and the city’s employees and the county due to a lack of gratuitous funds for homelessness. NEWSOM intends to break up to local authorities He considers negligent.

Medical Care Providers do not like both Medi-Cal Restrictions on Newsom and its diversion of funds from a Special Health Tax approved by voters last year It meant increased treatment payments.

Environmentalists are angry with Newsom’s declared intention for quick tracking a tunnel under the Delta of Sacramento-San Hoaquin To increase water supplies in southern California.

Defenders of Proposal 36Voter -approved measure to destroy some crimes that Newsom opposed declares its inability to include means of execution.

The wave of criticism and opposition puts the legislature on the spot. Those who do not like the budget require legislators to force Newsom to reduce its proposals while negotiating a semi -final version of the cost plan over the next four weeks to keep a deadline on June 15. Many legislators owe their career to budget critics, in particular the unions and environmentalists, and do not want to alienate them.

NEWSOM, on the other hand, is approaching the status of a duck, with his rubberian career remains only 19 months. Political Newsom can afford to annoy these groups. However, his relatively short term also means that he is beginning to lose his power over legislators, especially those who will still be in office after his disappearance.

NEWSOM obviously hopes that by ordering the budget now, in order to narrow the chronic gap of the state between income and output, it can avoid joining the list of former governors who have left the state’s finances in disarray for their heirs. Newsom inherited a state budget from the predecessor Jerry Brown, who was in pretty good condition, but in the last six plus years that included a pandemic, Cost growth has outpaced the increment of revenueS

The legislative budget analyzer recently indicated an average of 9% annual cost increase since Newsom became governor, but only 6% in the average revenue growth.

This has left the state what the budget MAVENS calls a significant “structural deficit” that the analyst, Gabe Peak and the NEWSOM’s own budget staff evaluated to be “$ 15 billion to $ 20 billion a yearS If you are left without addressing, it will amount to $ 42 billion by 2028-29.

Even with the reductions the Newsom offers, the estimated 2025-26 total revenue from a fund of $ 207 billion are still $ 19 billion short of $ 226 billion costs He offers. The gap will be covered by loans and transfers of special funds, transferring the costs of other cash vessels and various accounting tricks.

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