Legislators, cutting $3.5 billion in funding, endorsed a freeze on state health care for undocumented immigrants but want ...

"Not having access to health care, to home care, to childcare, to food - those things are disabling and can kill, right?" one ...

While the budget bill does include Newsom’s proposal to pause new illegal migrant enrollment on Jan. 1, 2026 for Medi-Cal, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the ...

Gavin Newsom's budget proposal includes reinstating an asset test for Medi-Cal to address rising costs with the program for ...

California lawmakers scaled back Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed Medi-Cal cuts this week. But critics say the revised plan still ...

The California Legislature has rejected many of the spending cuts Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking to close a $12 billion budget deficit, relying on internal borrowing to put off difficult decisions.

Nearly a month after Governor Gavin Newsom proposed pausing the expansion of publicly funded healthcare for undocumented Californians, Democratic lawmakers are drawing a line in the sand. This ...

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

The union claims that 23,000 SEIU members who are currently paid for 66 hours per week would see a 30% cut in their monthly ...

Calling the Healdsburg Democrat and Senate president an ally of immigrant communities, the demonstrators demanded he take a ...

Furthermore, Newsom wants to scale back Medi-Cal for illegal immigrants. That never was a sensible move for fiscal and other reasons. As always, California lawmakers eagerly expand social programs ...