California Democrats continue spending money like drunken sailors on shore leave. Yesterday, Gov. Newsom signed a bill to cover a massive shortfall caused by the expansion of the state’s Medicaid service (known as Medi-Cal) to illegal immigrants.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday that plugs an unexpected budget gap to fund Medi-Cal through late June…
He…asked lawmakers to allocate an additional $2.8 billion dollars from the General Fund just to keep the program afloat through the end of June.
Lawmakers did that on Thursday by passing AB 100 – something called a ‘budget bill junior,’ which amends the current budget.
Last year, the state estimated that expanding Medi-Cal to cover all illegal immigrants who fall below the income threshold would cost $6 billion for a year, but that figured has soared largely because about twice as many people signed…
