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California has a huge budget problem that could force thorny decisions from Democratic leaders who enjoyed a more than $100 billion surplus just three years ago. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on ...
News reports and commentators have cited the state's various legislative supermajority requirements as a contributing factor to the state budget crisis. [23] [24] The state has a long history of supermajority requirements with a 1933 state ballot measure mandating a two-thirds supermajority to pass the state budget and California Proposition 13 (1978) mandating another two-thirds supermajority ...
The blow dealt by the economic slowdown in California, the country and the globe eviscerated a projected state $5.6 billion surplus in January 2020 and turned it into the $54 billion deficit.
California faced a $26.3 billion budget deficit for the 2009–2010 budget year. [7] While the legislative bodies appeared to address the problem in 2008 with the three-month delayed passage of a budget they in fact only postponed the deficit to 2009 and due to the Great Recession and the 2007–2008 financial crisis the problem became urgent ...
An LAO analysis of the governor’s budget said the administration had actually filled a potential gap of $58 billion, meaning the two estimates were about $10 billion apart. Then, on Tuesday, the ...
Newsom boasted of a $97.5 billion budget surplus in 2022, but a year later, it morphed into a $31-plus billion deficit. What happened? California’s budget whiplash showed the pitfalls of ...
The tug-of-war between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office over the state’s projected budget deficit took a new turn Tuesday, when the LAO announced a ...
The plan would devote billions to an inflation relief package, drought and wildfire conditions, healthcare plan subsidies and higher school funding.