Check for $ 600. Universal pre-kindergarten. Forgiveness for backrents, traffic tickets, and utility bills. Large investments in power grids, broadband, wildfire prevention and drought mitigation. Tax cuts for small businesses and Hollywood.
Filled with huge surpluses and threatened by a campaign to bring him back from the office, California Governor Gavin Newsom last week offered the same government budget as when all of the studio’s audience won Pontiac at Oprah. This week, the state legislature adopted a $ 267.8 billion plan.
With the mid-June budget deadline and Newsome’s fellow Democrats controlling the state legislature, it’s unlikely that the broad priorities will […]
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