Senator McGuire’s Statement on Governor Newsom’s Budget
Press release from the Office of Senator McGuire:
Senate President Designee Mike McGuire issued the following statement in response to Governor Newsom’s budget released this morning:
“We’ve all known this was going to be a challenging budget year. Governor Newsom has shown a cautious approach and rightfully protected some of the most critical programs and services that benefit everyday Californians along with our most vulnerable families and seniors. We’re investing in our kids and public schools, expanding green energy resources to meet our long-term energy needs, advancing desperately needed homelessness funding, and providing resources to combat retail theft and build more workforce affordable housing.The incredibly dedicated team of Senators on the Budget Committee will be working overtime in the coming months to advance our own budget plan and will deliver a balanced budget that protects the Golden State’s values and priorities.”
McGuire will be sworn in as the Senate President Pro Tem on February 5th.
“I’m grateful for this opportunity of a lifetime to lead the State Senate and continue the successful path blazed by Pro Tem Toni Atkins. We have been working closely together over the past several months to deliver a seamless transition, and that includes our work together on this year’s budget. There’s much more work to come.”
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Hmm, after a long ponder ” let’s raise taxes and make the laborer pay our way once again” . Balancing the budget is always tough work, right Mike?
Much easier to raise taxes when you control the legislature! “Let them eat cake”.
And anyone Notice how groceries have gone up another 13% in the last 6 weeks. I’d have to make a special budget to buy the cake mix.
almost everything on the shelves at Winco is lower than it was a month ago.
bullshit. i was there yesterday, looking at food items.
did you notice the rib eye price? fruit and veggies change with the seasons but the stuff on the shelves are lower.
Prices are even lower when you cross the Oregon border.
Oh wait Mr. Clark says “bullshit he was there yesterday”….. well that settles it, says the man that doesn’t know MLK day is a national holiday and thinks it’s some sort of commie California invention ?
I thought MLK was a pariah with the Democrat Party? He preached against race based outcomes snd suggested looking at the intrinsic value of every human, regardless of color, race, creed. Whoever the person Mr. Clark is more than likely abides by and agrees with the above sentiment. Hmmm.
Did they lower the shelves?
LMFAO..
And three months ago, a lot of staples spiked considerably, with this current reduction still quite more than it was a year ago. Also, when something goes lower, something else in the store rises in price.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is proposing to dip into the state’s “rainy day” fund to help fill the hole that is the state’s $38 billion deficit — a stunning shortfall, given a surplus of nearly $100 billion that the Golden State had enjoyed just a year before.
As Breitbart News has noted, California received shocking news at the end of 2022 when a $98 billion surplus, partly fueled by President Joe Biden’s “rescue” plan, collapsed into a $25 billion deficit. Later projections predicted an even larger deficit.
On Wednesday, Newsom presented a budget that estimates a $38 billion deficit — which may only be half of the eventual amount.
As CalMatters.org notes, Newsom proposed spending cuts to some programs, such as state initiatives on climate change, and extra funds to help settle migrants that have arrived in California after crossing over the porous southern U.S. border.
But Newsom is also dipping into the state’s savings to prevent budget cuts in areas such as education. EdSource reported:
Newsom’s predecessor, Gov. Jerry Brown (D), created the “rainy day fund,” though it did not solve California’s budget problems.
One driver of deficits is the state’s seemingly endless enthusiasm for providing heath care to illegal aliens. As of this year, the state is providing full benefits under Medi-Cal, the California version of Medicaid, to all residents, regardless of immigration status.
At the time Obamacare was passed, expanding Medicaid, Republican fears that it would benefit illegal aliens were dismissed.
You mean all residents except for the ones that actually work for a living…
Does that mean the lawmakers won’t get their well deserved pay raise?
“With tax revenues in a free fall comparable to the Great Recession and the dot-com bust, California faces a projected $68 billion budget deficit next year ”
https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/12/budget-deficit-california/#:~:text=With%20tax%20revenues%20in%20a,state%20finance%20officials%20said%20today.
Plus the tax payers now have to pay for free healthcare for the illegal immigrants :
“According to an Associated Press report, the expansion will eventually cost the state about $3.1 billion per year.”
Gee… I wonder why Gavin was spotted hanging with Bill Clinton in Mexico about a week or so ago?
You can pick up a blue dress down there for about 6 bucks.
And that includes a young girl wearing it.
Plus there another $3+billion added to that for extras per year. So in year 2 it will cost almost $7billion and as things work here it will be $10billion by year 3 along with increases every year.
If you want positive change vote republican in 2024…
Hey Mike. To turn this state around, the failed democrat legislature needs to, completely end all social programs and start over. End and revamp the education system. End ALL public employee unions. End all this crap and build it back with basic social handouts.
You have to face facts at some point. Tax base has fled the state. Weed is a moldy dime bag, compared to cartel profits estimated to bring in millions every month. Industry has fled. All you have left to tax is the 48% employed population, and they are overtaxed by now. Fuel is $1.60 more that any other state. You raised the tax on guns and ammo 100%. Food is up 30%. And soon you want to tax solar panels for PGE.
What the hell are idiots thinking?
You can’t fix stupid. Stupid is as stupid does. Vote for stupid, get stupid results. GIGO.
You can most definitely fix stupidity by getting rid of gruesome newsom. He is only friends with the rich idiots!
These people are supposed to represent us that was the job they are hired to do seems like their goal is to steal from us lie to us our government has attention deficit disorder the older generation was exposed to alot of lead until 1977. The younger generation doesn’t have the exposure to brain damaging heavy metals that Newsom generation has besides why are senior citizens running our country they belong in a rest home not government
It’s not the age, it’s the mental capacity.
NanoPlastic though filled in the gap… why are senior citizens running our country? Because 1) they will work at something if only getting elected and not just whining online about how hard it is to be them and 2) the job still requires they be a citizen.
Well, Washington State ( no income tax) has embarked on ways to tax every nook and cranny to pay for the corruption. “Tax your feet for takin a walk.”
Dear McGuire:
Shut up.
Thanks so much!
And remember:
I live in a County where a Senior Citizen can’t get a fuckin’ job, therefore I don’t pay California Income Tax…
Electees like McGuire are primarily interested in keeping their noses in the trough, even when they are only minimally qualified to do anything at all… Kinda like Mrs Bushnell searching for the new mom who “disappeared” when Mrs Bushnell is unable to find her own ass with a flashlight, and has no idea how to do the $100,000/year job she somehow got elected to do…
Politics are the least interesting thing in the world, to me, but Politics sure does attract the least honest and the most self-interested narcissists in existence…
Like I said, Mr McGuire, please, just shut up…
Billions for refugees, scooting across the border, and a hell of a lot of them seem to be Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, Syrian and et al, which isn’t normal, at all…
We are worrying about the wrong things, and we need to get worried about Islamic Terrorists as well as Guatemalan Communist runaways and Chinese Organic Chemists, because they probably are not here to help the American Citizen…
Bushnell would have to learn how to turn on the flashlight first. She’s not even smart enough to do that.
McGuire’s “pro tem” appointment will have little benefit to the NorCal coast.
If anything, quality of life issues will be worse as his attention is given to the lobby he is indebted to. McGuire is interested in what is best for McGuire.
I read they were cutting into education to save 16 billion, not supporting as he states.
And spending Trillions to build a “high speed train from Fresno to somewhere else…”
Infrastructure construction is on hold too.
Good point! It’s a train that won’t have a single connection to NorCal taxpayers. Anyone take the Amtrak bus lately? That’s a joke!
Cutting an increase that is unaffordable is responsible. Thank goodness for a balanced budget regulation even if it is more honored in abstract than reality.
$100B surplus in 2022
$-69B deficit in 2024
The top 1% of taxpayers in California pay 50% of state income tax, and the top 0.1% pay a third. The progressive tax code has made CA more reliant on the rich getting richer than ever before.
That and term limits. What we have is a herd of legislators who know they have two terms to make a mark. They need to push their agenda hard and quick in order to achieve anything and the way to do it is -ta da- spend money on it a fast as they can. There is zero interest in overall planning for the future as their future does not exist in this office. They will never learn from their mistakes because they are out of office before the mistakes come home to roost.
Sure hope they’ll be enough money for the p.u.c. to get their well deserved pay raise for all the hard work in getting the electric rates jacked up.
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Thank goodness for term limits they’ve found out how to circumvent.
When you vote for democrats this is the resultant disaster. And its going to get worse as long as they control.
It’s not a disaster. It is SOP in California.
Vote republican for positive change.
Wee Mike and Gavin will do what Penny Pritzker and Eileen Getty tell them to do. The liberal elite panicked when hourly wage earners gained ground during the Trump administration for the first time in 42 years. Democrats are all about the working stiff is their biggest lie and the sheep believe them, for now.
Dirtbag in a suit.
Dirtbag in a suit again.
So during the winter how are we going to live off green energy? My panels produce way less than half of what is produced in the summer. An average house uses 45kwh a day not including charging for an electric car. I figure to charge a battery after driving back from bay area will take 30 panels and 3 days in full summer sun to get to 50%-80%, leaving very little power for the house. In the winter it will be impossible to charge a car battery. These are rough numbers but close.
The wind still blows during the Winter.
We need to hurry up and get that offshore wind farm up and running.
I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic..
Boom! Whale sushi and seagull shakes are quite disturbing, indeed!
Period.
Me really no likey Mikey..
I hear some politicians use the expression, “ wealth distribution or wealth relocation “ . What are they talking about?
Taxing the rich to improve the quality of life for everyone.
Yikes. The reason why many humans would be eliminated on the first hour of Survivor Afghanistan.
Graft, corruption and greed.
Hey Mike, California has a $68 Billion dollar deficit and you’re spending $3 Billion to give criminal illegal aliens free medical care. Sacramento democrats are unhinged.