California occupies $ 3.4 billion to cover the budget difference in Medi-Cal

To cover a budget difference in Medi-Cal-which provides health insurance for about 15 million Californians with disabilities and low-income-administration of governor Gavin Newsom E Borrowing $ 3.4 billion from the State’s General FundS

Calm Anna B. Ibara and Christen Explain, the move comes at a time when the state is facing a limited budget and potential cuts to the Federal Government ProgramS

Republican legislators attribute a lack of a Medi-Cal budget to the expansion of the state through the program over the years of immigrants, regardless of their legal status, which began within the governor Jerry Brown in 2016, when the untamed children have the right to enroll in Medi-Cal.

About 1.6 million undocumented immigrants are recorded in Medi-Cal and expand Medi-Cal to cover them costs $ 8.5 billion a yearS

• Senate leader of GOP Brian Jones to San Diego: “The Democrats and the Governor … Priority to the people who have entered our country illegally over the people who immigrated here legitimately, people who are citizens.”

Seni. Roger NiloThe Republican of the Rosawal and the Vice -President of the Budget Committee said that “the completely opaque nature of the request … is completely inappropriate.”

HD Palmer, a state-owned funding spokesman, recognized costs for Medi-Cal have increased in part because of the larger number of records from the California Undumed Population (a population that also contributes around $ 8.5 billion in taxes per year). But the Newsom administration claims that there are other reasons why the cost of Medi-Cal is increasing and that California is not the only country facing these problems.

Non -partisans Legislative analyzerFor example, reported an increased number of adults – who have relatively more complex and expensive needs – have been enrolled in the program in the last four years.

Read more hereS

In other Capitol news: Annexed by 19 other countries led by Democrats and Washington, California General Prosecutor Rob Bont is Resistance to President Donald Trump’s administration to block mass shootings at the US Department of Education. Trump has repeatedly promised Dismantle the federal departmentAnd on Tuesday, the department fired half of its staff.

The US Secretary of Education said in a statement that the cuts reflect the “commitment of the department of efficiency, accountability and guarantee that resources are directed where they are of the most meaning.” But Bont claims that the exclusion of the department will have “catastrophic consequences” and “is grossly illegal”. Read more by Calmatters’ Carolyn Jones and Mikhail ZinshteynS

By a Calfatters Capitol reporter Jean Quang:

California Republicans gather this weekend for their first convention after the November election.

They are probably in a festive mood: they turned two seats at the State Assembly and one in the Senate in November; Trump has increased his share of votes in most cities; And voters across the country have rejected several initiatives for liberal votes and have predominantly adopted a difficult measure of crimes opposed to the Democrats.

But Republicans also have a lot of work ahead.

The medium -term elections were historically challenging for the national power party. Again, again, moving again to apply solid rates for Mexico, Canada, China And now France have led to Almost 10% drop In S&P 500 and Retailers promise Increasing prices. This can harm Republicans who regularly admire Democrats about California’s inaccessibility – and whose profits in November have been guided in part by the discontent of voters in inflation.

Therefore, despite Trump’s complete embrace across the country, some Republicans in California have deviated from it this week. A group for the future of the state GOP in Sacramento several Republican MPs have refused to develop their alignment with Trump, striving to focus on California’s problems.

• Assembly Josh HooverRepublican of Folsom, on whether he voted for Trump: “This is a basic simplification of where the people of California are. I try to focus on problems and I try not to be sucked into Moraus, which is the national political scene. “

Party members are likely to achieve a different tone of their convention. The first day includes both the California Maga Open House and the Make California Great Again event. The party has booked as one of its main speakers, Riley Gaines, the former college athlete and the crusaders against leaving transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports.

Mike Morel, a former state senator who is running for a party chairman, said Republicans would increase their numbers by focusing on the choice of a parent in education, crime and loosening of California regulations, which he believes are cumbersome to business. But he called cultural wars as a focus on trans athletes “equally important.” He is running against the party’s deputy chairman Corin Rankin, who refused to be interviewed.

Describing the loss as “irreplaceable”, the Federal Land Management Bureau says that the petroglyphs in a volcanic table near the bishop are defined last week.

The site is protected under the Federal Law and serves as an important religious and ceremonial site for members of the Paiute tribe, according to the Federal Agency. Petroglyphs are thought to be between 1000 and 4,200 years old.

• Sherry lysiumThe Bishop’s Bishop’s Field Manager, in a statement: “The responsible have destroyed an indispensable part of our national cultural heritage.”

Although the agency does not track the number of visitors to the site, it will continue increased monitoring, will work with tribes to repair the damage and improve the plates, the agency said in an email to Calmatters. Investigators offer $ 1,500 for advice leading to arrest and sentence and are interested in talking to visitors who have been on the site in the last three months.

On Thursday Assembly Rick Znsod said he had withdrawn his controversial Assembly Bill 1333 from consideration. Democrat in Los Angeles introduced the measure of dealing with weapons violence by narrowing standards for justified murder. Zbur’s service said it did not intend to review the proposal on a later date. Learn more about the account And the blow out from the Republicans.