Blue-State Blues: Gavin Newsom Busted Cali’s Budget On Migrants — and NY, NJ Will Soon Follow; Trump Admin Probes LA Welfare Program Over Whether It’s Paying Benefits to Illegal Immigrants

Blue-state blues: Gavin Newsom busted Cali’s budget on migrants — and NY, NJ will soon follow

Last week California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that his state is facing a $12 billion budget deficit.

As has become the habit for every blue-state governor in trouble, he pinned the blame on President Donald Trump.

But the real reason California is in a hole is its unprecedented levels of social-service spending, especially on illegal immigrants.

Unless the state is willing to reform its budget-busting welfare programs, California, like its blue-state brethren New York and New Jersey, will face perpetual fiscal woes.

Newsom claimed that “California is under assault” from Washington, and that a “Trump slump” from tariffs and other federal policies will cause its fiscal shortfall.

Yet the budget document itself admits the state does “not forecast a traditional recession” — and that an anticipated decline in revenues accounts for less than half of the new deficit.

The main issue, the budget makes clear, is California’s explosion in spending — especially for Medi-Cal, its health-care program for low-income individuals.

In California, the medical plan supposedly reserved for the poor covers more than a third of the entire population, far more than in the rest of the country: Nationwide, similar Medicaid programs cover about 20% of all Americans.

Part of the reason for its large number of recipients is that since 2016, California has been continuously expanding coverage for what it calls the “undocumented.”

Beginning last year it made Medi-Cal available to all illegal immigrants.

Medi-Cal’s coverage is generous: It includes dental, vision and mental-health services, as well as transportation to medical appointments and drug and alcohol rehab.

Just two months ago, the Newsom administration had to borrow an extra $2.7 billion because more illegal immigrants were enrolling in the program than anticipated. —>READ MORE HERE

Trump admin probes LA welfare program over whether it’s paying benefits to illegal immigrants:

The Trump administration has launched an investigation into a Los Angeles County welfare program that pays immigrants up to $18,000 per year over allegations it is “providing federal benefits to illegal aliens.”

The probe focuses on LA’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) program, which the Golden State created to pay seniors or disabled who are barred from collecting Social Security based on their immigration status, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.

DHS has demanded the records of all people enrolled in the program in LA County.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many people participate in LA’s CAPI program, but statewide, there are about 16,500 people enrolled.

California says the program, which was launched in 1998, is funded entirely by state money — and that it is “not generally available” to undocumented people.

CAPI is designed to help support elderly, blind or disabled immigrants who have legal status to remain in the US. It pays about $1,100 per month for most elderly or disabled people who qualify, or $1,900 per month for couples. Payments for nursing home care can reach nearly $1,500 a month.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem slammed “radical leftist politicians in California for prioritizing “illegal aliens over our own citizens” through the program, in a statement Monday. —>READ MORE HERE

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