We told them so.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Democrat, of course) bragged about a huge budget surplus during the COVID lockdowns and made big promises to his core constituencies about how they were going to use that money. For many reasons (pandemic unemployment fraud, gross mismanagement, huge tax base losses) that surplus isn’t just gone; the state has such a large shortfall that some agencies were ordered to stop ordering office supplies.
Last year, despite loud warnings about the cost from (most) California Republicans and anyone else with a brain, Newsom and his band of virtue-signaling Democrats made Medi-Cal available to illegal aliens in the state – and now Medi-Cal is bankrupt and Newsom’s asking the legislature for $6.2 billion just…