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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13502451/gavin-newsom-plan- defund-california-police-climate-budget.html

California governor Gavin Newsom's proposed new budget would slash funding
for the police as the state struggles with a massive deficit of at least
$45 billion.

Last month the Democrat unveiled his budget for the next fiscal year,
admitting that 'difficult decisions' are needed to address the state's
deficit - including a 1.6 percent reduction in the state's Department of Justice's overall funding.

The proposed budget includes a $97 million cut to trial court operations,
$10 million to the Department of Justice's Division of Law Enforcement and
over $80 million to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as reported by Fox News.

Newsom's plan comes as major national stores and local businesses in
California say they continue to face rampant theft. Videos of large-scale thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take
goods in plain sight, have often gone viral.

Crime data shows the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles saw a steady increase in shoplifting between 2021 and 2022. Across the state,
shoplifting rates rose during the same time period but were still lower
than the pre-pandemic levels in 2019, while commercial burglaries and
robberies have become more prevalent in urban counties.

Meanwhile homelessness jumped 6 percent to more than 180,000 people in California last year, federal data show. And since 2013, the numbers have exploded by 53 percent with the state accounting for a third of America's entire homeless population.

The state's criminal justice record which saw the number of violent crimes
jump by 27 percent between 2013 and 2022, and pickpocketing more than
double.

This is the second year in a row the nation’s most populous state is
facing a multibillion-dollar shortfall. State revenues have continued to
fall amid increasing inflation and a slowdown in the state’s usually
robust technology industry.

Officially, Newsom said the state’s deficit is $27.6 billion. But really,
it’s closer to $45 billion when including previous spending reductions
that Newsom and the state Legislature agreed to in March.

Including reductions in public education spending, which Newsom has not included, the deficit would be even billions of dollars more, according to recent analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.

A spokesperson for Newsom told Fox News in a statement: 'The budget
proposes numerous ways to make government more efficient and reduce costs
for taxpayers, including cuts on inmate spending.

'Since Governor Newsom took office in 2019, the state has made record investments in law enforcement, including $1.1 billion to tackle crime,
support police, and hold criminals accountable.'

So far, Newsom has not gutted some of his splashiest policy advancements, including free kindergarten for all 4-year-olds and free health insurance
for all low-income adults regardless of their immigration status.

But as Friday’s proposal showed, Newsom is willing to chip away at some of those promises to balance the budget.

While Newsom has not taken away health insurance from anyone, he proposed
the state stop paying for health care workers to care for some 14,000
disabled immigrants in their home. That would save the state $94.7
million. While he hasn’t pulled back the state’s commitment to expanded kindergarten, he proposed eliminating $550 million that would have helped school districts build the facilities they need to teach all of those
extra students.

After promising to pay for child care for another 146,000 children from low-income families, Newsom on Friday proposed pausing that expansion at 119,000. And after promising to boost how much money doctor’s get to treat Medicaid patients, Newsom on Friday proposed canceling $6.7 billion that
had been set aside to do that.

In total, Newsom is proposing $32.8 billion in cuts over two years,
including eliminating 10,000 unfilled state jobs and an 8 percent cut to
state operations — including things like eliminating landlines. He
promised there would be no layoffs, furloughs or salary cuts for the
state’s more than 221,000 state workers.

The size of the deficit is important as it will shape the national
perspectives of Newsom, who is a top surrogate for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign and who is widely believed to harbor presidential aspirations of his own.

Newsom has spent much of his time in office basking in the glow of
historic budget surpluses that allowed him to greatly expand state
spending. But back-to-back budget deficits — with more on the horizon —
are testing California’s commitment to those increases.

Newsom had enjoyed unprecedented surplus budgets of more than $100 billion throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But the past two years have saddled him
with a pair of multibillion-dollar deficits, a less-welcome position for a governor seen as a potential future Democratic presidential candidate.


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