Republican State Senators start transparency fight over California budget talks
The vote in the State Senate turned into a fight between Republicans and Democrats over a lack of transparency when lawmakers ...
California has a $6.2 billion Medicaid funding gap partly due to expanding immigrant coverage
California also is bracing for major budget hits if Republicans in Congress follow through with a plan to slash billions of ...
Lobbyists are a growth industry in a state as complex as California
Micheli found that the number of lobbying firms has grown from 433 to 484 over the last 10 years. More interestingly, the ...
Newsom asks for nearly another $3B for state health program overwhelmed by illegal immigrants
The Newsom administration is asking more money from California lawmakers to patch the state's bloated healthcare budget amid ...
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California Budget Woes Likely To Grow After Newsom Borrows $3.44 Billion To Pay for Migrant Health Care
California is shifting money left and right after an explosion to its Medicaid rolls, the result of Governor Newsom’s pledge ...
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California’s Medi-Cal shortfall hits $6.2 billion with ‘unprecedented’ cost increases
Cal. Some of the cost drivers include higher enrollment among immigrants without legal status as well as pharmacy costs.
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Cal State Monterey Bay grappling with uncertainty around its budget
The university has whittled down a roughly $4 million deficit in the past two years and is now looking stable, but ...
Opinion: California doesn’t need DOGE, but there’s still plenty to cut here
A full audit — independent, rigorous and public — could draw a blueprint to root out waste and fraud without theatrics.