Recovery, Recall and Record Revenue: What’s Driving Newsom’s Budget

Recovery, Recall and Record Revenue: What’s Driving Newsom’s Budget

Prekindergarten students at West Orange Elementary School in Orange, Calif., in March. Jae C. Hong/Associated Press Good morning.

Six-hundred-dollar checks. Universal prekindergarten. Forgiveness for back rent, traffic tickets, utility bills. Big investments in the electrical grid, broadband, wildfire prevention, drought mitigation. Tax breaks for small business and Hollywood.

Flush with a huge surplus and threatened by a campaign to recall him from office, Gov. Gavin Newsom last week proposed a state budget that was the government equivalent of that time everyone in the studio audience got a Pontiac on Oprah. This week, state legislators took up the $267.8 billion plan .With […]

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