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Gov. Newsom's proposed budget fails the moment
Orange County Register | January 10, 2024 | Wayne Winegarden
Governor Gavin Newsom is wrong. His proposed budget is not “resilient;” it demonstrates an inability to learn the lessons from California’s volatile budget history.
The crippling deficit is merely one manifestation of the broader crisis. Newsom estimates a $37.9 billion deficit, about one-half of the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office’s (LAO) initial $68 billion calculation. In response, the Analyst says Newsom’s revenue estimate is “about $15 billion higher than ours . . . fall(ing) on the optimistic side of what we consider most plausible.”
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Dear Governors: Just Say 'No' To Medicaid Expansion
Forbes | Sally Pipes | January 8, 2024
Today, 40 states and the District of Columbia ([link removed]) have taken advantage of the Affordable Care Act’s move to open the program to able-bodied Americans with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level. Even Republican-led states like North Carolina have buckled under the expansion wave. And there’s mounting pressure for the 10 holdouts to follow suit.
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Budget woes force cities to limit utopian climate programs
Free Cities Center | John Seiler | January 11, 2024
City officials depend on money from state and federal governments to implement climate agendas imposed from above. A new report ([link removed]) finds them griping about their favorite topic: not enough money from the taxpayers. Key takeaway: “Across all policy areas, respondents were most likely to identify staff capacity and funding as resource needs for moving climate actions from the planning stage to the implementation stage.”
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