Department of Finance – California Globe

Sections of the California Budget Bill

June 24, 2025 2:30 amJune 24, 2025 2:31 am

In the 2025 California Legislative Session, Senate Bill 101 (Wiener) is the annual budget bill for the 2025-26 fiscal year that begins July 1. With hundreds of individual appropriation line items, as well as budget control language, there are dozens...

DOGE Needs to Take a Deep Dive into California’s Bankrupted Medi-Cal Program

April 8, 2025 9:25 amApril 8, 2025 9:27 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program is insolvent. Newsom just confessed last month that California’s Medi-Cal is insolvent. Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program, a public health insurance program which provides needed health care services for low-income individuals. As California Congressman...

Remember Newsom’s 2022 Backroom Deal to Cut Out Competition and Force All of California into Kaiser?

March 18, 2025 8:26 amMarch 19, 2025 1:21 pm

Remember when Governor Gavin Newsom inked the backroom deal with Kaiser for statewide Medi-Cal health? He never learns, does he? Last week we learned that the cost of Newsom’s policy of giving free medical coverage to every illegal immigrant in...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal is Insolvent

March 14, 2025 2:55 amMarch 15, 2025 7:03 am

“I can’t be overdrawn – I still have checks left,” was my favorite dumb blonde bumper sticker in the 1980’s, and apropos in California today. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new vanity podcast project is a diversion to keep attention on...

The Joint Legislative Budget Committee

October 7, 2024 1:00 pmOctober 7, 2024 1:01 pm

Article 7 deals with the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. Section 9140 created the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. The committee ascertains facts and makes recommendations to the Legislature concerning the State Budget, the revenues and expenditures of the State, the organization...

Frequently Asked Questions about the May Budget Revision

February 7, 2024 6:51 amFebruary 7, 2024 6:51 am

What is the “May Revision”? The Governor’s Department of Finance explains that the May Revision reflects “changes to the Governor’s Proposed Budget based upon the latest economic forecasts.” The Office of Legislative Counsel, in its Glossary of terms, explains the...

Yay for Bad Government!

November 19, 2023 3:00 amNovember 19, 2023 3:01 am

Government (and many private) bureaucracies are where hope goes to die. Populated by slothful, uncaring time servers who literally have no motivation to do much more than physically (and now not even that) show up, sit down, and look plausible...