While most of the talk around these parts has been about the state budget, the federal budget fight is heating up. And, as you would expect, that’s going to put a few wrinkles in the plan. Namely, with additional cuts to states likely, how much will the federal cuts hit California. Capitol Alert has some of the first word from the President’s budget released today:<\/p>\n
The Obama administration’s $3.7 trillion budget proposal unveiled Monday includes myriad cuts for California programs. It also includes some increased funding for Sacramento-area flood control projects.<\/p>\n
Obama, for instance, proposes cutting a reimbursement program that aids California and other states that imprison large numbers of illegal immigrants on other criminal charges. The so-called State Criminal Alien Assistance Program is providing states $300 million this year, with California getting the largest share. Obama proposes cutting this to $136 million.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As you know, California is a donor state, receiving about 80 cents per dollar we send to the federal government in the most recent numbers. That changed slightly with the stimu-bux, but as most of those are being phased out at this point, the hit to our budget is real<\/p>\n
So, as we continue to focus on Sacramento, dark clouds are forming over
Mordor<\/strike> Washington that threaten to make our fight more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While most of the talk around these parts has been about the state budget, the federal budget fight is heating up. And, as you would expect, that’s going to put a few wrinkles in the plan. Namely, with additional cuts to states likely, how much will the federal cuts hit California. Capitol Alert has some of the first word from the President’s budget released today:<\/p>\n
The Obama administration’s $3.7 trillion budget proposal unveiled Monday includes myriad cuts for California programs. It also includes some increased funding for Sacramento-area flood control projects.<\/p>\n
Obama, for instance, proposes cutting a reimbursement program that aids California and other states that imprison large numbers of illegal immigrants on other criminal charges. The so-called State Criminal Alien Assistance Program is providing states $300 million this year, with California getting the largest share. Obama proposes cutting this to $136 million.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As you know, California is a donor state, receiving about 80 cents per dollar we send to the federal government in the most recent numbers. That changed slightly with the stimu-bux, but as most of those are being phased out at this point, the hit to our budget is real<\/p>\n
So, as we continue to focus on Sacramento, dark clouds are forming over
Mordor<\/strike> Washington that threaten to make our fight more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3pV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}