California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) released a new budget proposal Wednesday that suggests closing off free health care to illegal aliens in the Medi-Cal program, the state’s version of Medicaid, due to high costs.
Newsom acknowledged that the state faces huge budget deficits for the second year in a row, despite massive federally-funded surpluses before that — amounting to a $12 billion gap that the state government must fill.
As part of his plan to fill the hole, Newsom’s revised 2025-26 budget is proposing $5 billion in savings by barring new “undocumented” immigrants from joining Medi-Cal — though he said that existing enrollees would not lose their benefits.
CalMatters.org reported:
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A year after granting Medi-Cal access to low-income immigrants without legal status, Gov. Gavin Newsom
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