Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) unveiled an updated spending plan in mid-May, sparking concern from local lawmakers and public officials over multiple 2023-24 budget cuts.
The Golden State’s estimated budget deficit has risen by $9 billion since the original budget plan was released in January. It's a stark contrast from last year's federal surplus. Newsom announced the budget deficit reached $31.5 billion as of May.The budget struggles are a result of banking and stock market turmoil, delayed tax collection due to severe winter storm damage, and other things.
The Newsom administration successfully shut down the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy in 2021, and the California Correctional Center in Susanville is set to close at the end of June. Prisons in Blythe and in California City are expected to close by March 2025. “Community leaders in Blythe and surrounding communities are—unlike nearly every other community—enthusiastic supporters of the prison in their region,” the letter states.
Assembly leaders unveiled their 2023 budget plan last week shortly after Newsom's revised May budget plan. Under the proposal, sent out by Democratic Assembly Budget Chairman Phil Ting of San Francisco, pressure is put on the Newsom administration to announce five additional prison closures by 2027. “We are in the red zone right now when it comes to public transportation in the state of California,” state Sen. Scott Weiner, a Democrat from San Francisco, said in a Sacramento press conference on Tuesday.
Wicks discussed the importance of these funds for transit-dependent districts like the East Bay and cities like Oakland and Berkeley, which Wicks represents. Wicks said if public transportation becomes unavailable, it will affect “working-class families' financial stability.”Newsom’s May revision to the 2023-24 budget kept the $6 billion cut to climate spending in the January legislation.
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