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\n SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 The California Legislature on Thursday rejected many of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s most difficult budget cuts, choosing instead to speed-up a temporary tax increase on some businesses to help pay off an estimated $45 billion deficit while preserving spending on many social safety net programs.Thursday\u2019s vote was not really a public rebuke of Newsom, a Democrat who for the most part has had a good relationship with a Legislature dominated by members of his own party. Lawmakers had to pass a balanced budget before Saturday in order to keep getting paid while negotiations on a final spending plan continue.Instead, the Legislature\u2019s proposal outlines the differences between Newsom, a second-term governor who many believe holds presidential aspirations, and a liberal state Legislature that is often more willing to take risks. <\/p>\n
While Newsom\u2019s budget proposal preserved most of the state\u2019s major assistance programs, he included a number of smaller cuts that angered his Democratic allies. He proposed to stop paying for in-home caretakers for some disabled immigrants on Medicaid. He wants to eliminate a program that helps provide housing for families with incomes less than $13,000 per year. And he suggested delaying a rate increase for organizations that care for people with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n
To reject these cuts, lawmakers needed to find more money. They found it by taking one of Newsom\u2019s ideas and making it happen faster.<\/p>\n
Newsom proposed temporarily stopping some businesses from deducting financial losses from their state taxable income, thus increasing their tax bill. It has become a common way to increase revenue during budget shortfalls. The Legislature chose to do this, too, but their plan would start the tax increase one year earlier. That generated an extra $5 billion in revenue compared with Newsom\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n
Lawmakers also found large budget cuts in other places. They want to cut $1 billion out of the state\u2019s prison budget, arguing the money isn\u2019t needed now that the prison population is about half of what it was two decades ago. And they want to cancel a $400 million loan to PG&E that would help extend the life of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. One major issue that has yet to be addressed by either side is what to do about a minimum wage increase for health care workers that is scheduled to start on July 1. Newsom signed a law last year that would eventually raise health care workers\u2019 minimum wage to $25 per hour over the next decade.The wage increase is expected to cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in increased wages for some state workers and increased payments in the state\u2019s Medicaid program, according to an analysis by the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center. Newsom has said he wants to delay the minimum wage increase, but he so far has been unable to get an agreement from the state Legislature.Republicans, who don\u2019t have enough numbers to sway policy decisions and say they were left out of the budget negotiations with Democrats, criticized the Legislature\u2019s spending plan as unsustainable. Republican state Sen. Kelly Seyarto accused Democrats of \u201cdivesting\u201d from the state\u2019s prison system \u201cinstead of fixing it and creating a system that works for all of us.\u201d And Republican state Sen. Roger Niello said it was dangerous for Democrats to assume the state would collect more revenue next year than what the Legislative Analyst\u2019s Office had projected.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the easiest ways to balance a public sector budget is just to assume more revenue and you don\u2019t have to deal with that until the year is over,\u201d he said. \u201cThis budget is balanced nominally. But it is not sustainable.\u201dDemocratic state Sen. Scott Wiener said the Legislature\u2019s budget is a plan \u201cwe can all be proud of.\u201d He defended the budget cut for prisons, saying \u201cit is absolutely absurd that we have reduced our prison population by 50% and yet we\u2019re spending more on prisons.\u201d\u201cWe can have accountability for committing crimes without going back to mass incarceration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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