Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year includes a nearly 90% reduction in funding for a state program called ...

Proposition 35 was meant to attract doctors to care for low-income Californians. Instead, the state is looking to use that ...

Progressive Democrats racing against a looming deadline to approve the state budget are pressing to hike taxes on large ...

One can make a reasonable case for a higher asset limit, but removing it opened the system to abuse. This is a safety-net ...

Budget delays have been common across the country amid lousy economic forecasts, federal uncertainty and other factors.

The California Senate today voted 34-1 to approve its version of legislation aimed at expanding and retooling the state’s ...

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Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents ...

But Newsom also found himself in agreement with conservative firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday over a ...

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President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be singed into law by ...

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...