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California lawmakers approved a state budget proposal that would freeze health care enrollment for immigrants without status
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The California General Assembly approved the $325 billion budget ahead of a Sunday, June 15th deadline
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Governor Gavin Newsom and lawmakers agreed on cutting enrollment in Medi-Cal for immigrants who can't prove they are in the country legally
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Those already on the state-funded health care plan will get to keep their coverage, but will need to start paying monthly premiums
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Lawmakers hope this will help close a $12 billion budget shortfall. The bill passed by a Democratic majority, but Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel and other Democrats did raise objections to some of its provisions
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We cannot balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable. We cannot ignore the real challenges facing middle class and working families
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but we also refuse to ignore the real fiscal challenges facing our state
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We hope that the solutions presented in our legislative budget can help to guide that conversation and that together we can pass a budget that meets the needs of our diverse communities in this unprecedented moment
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Assembly member Carl DeMaio says this plan doesn't go far enough and will hurt citizens
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This budget contains $13.7 billion in accounting gimmicks. It is not balanced. Raids on reserves, fund shifts, pushing forward expenditures to future budget years
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It underfunds public safety by not funding Prop 36, which is the voters priority and underfunding critical wildland fire risk reduction programs
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A new survey from the Public Policy Institute of California shows a majority of Californians prefer to pay lower taxes with less social services
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That's a drastic change from what that survey showed in the previous 20 years
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For Straight Hour News, I'm Kaylee Carey. For more unbiased, fact-driven news, download the Straight Hour News mobile app today or go to san.com
