{"id":3470,"date":"2020-06-30T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:58:28","slug":"california-democrats-partisan-budget-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats&#8217; Partisan Budget is a Disaster Waiting to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Written by Nicholas Vetrisek<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The State Legislature recently approved Gov. Newsom&#8217;s 2020-2021 state budget. It\u2019s nothing new to Republicans that it contains ridiculous items like aid to illegal immigrant families, things that could only be passed in a state with a Democratic supermajority, but this year is especially bad. It\u2019s not just bad for what\u2019s in it, it&#8217;s also bad because of what\u2019s not in it\u2014or more specifically, what will never be in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state is facing a serious budget deficit as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but very few programs were cut because the state is banking on aid from none other than the federal government, which is over $26 trillion in debt and climbing. The HEROES Act, which was passed in the House of Representatives and dead on arrival in the Senate, is expected to pick up much of the tab for the programs that the state is refusing to cut. There is only one problem, it won&#8217;t pass into law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HEROES Act is a partisan Democratic bill which means that it was passed easily through the Democratic House, but it has absolutely no chance of passing in the Republican-controlled Senate. In other words, there is a better chance of President Trump being impeached twice than this bill passing, yet this is what Sacramento Democrats have staked our budget on.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Assembly is back from recess for a day to formalize the most secretive budget in modern California history. Each year we\u2019ve taken another step down the ladder of transparency. This year we fell off it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinKileyCA\/status\/1276637180027301888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Democrats want to have their cake and eat it too\u2014no deficit without cutting spending. It doesn\u2019t work that way. &#8220;We could have made more cuts,&#8221; said Phil Ting, Democratic Assemblyman from San Francisco. &#8220;We could have had a budget that was better for our bond rating. But we decided that it was more important to ensure that schools remain held harmless, more important to make sure we didn\u2019t cut health care.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, because Democrats were so rigid with the budget, we will have a massive deficit, and they will be unable to sufficiently fund essential services as a result. They refused to make good decisions early, so they will be forced to make poor decisions later. Of course, like every other Democratic failure, it will cost us too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Nicholas Vetrisek The State Legislature recently approved Gov. Newsom&#8217;s 2020-2021 state budget. It\u2019s nothing new to Republicans that it contains ridiculous items like aid to illegal immigrant families, things that could only be passed in a state with a Democratic supermajority, but this year is especially bad. It\u2019s not just bad for what\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California Democrats&#039; Partisan Budget is a Disaster Waiting to Happen - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3470\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Democrats&#039; Partisan Budget is a Disaster Waiting to Happen - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Nicholas Vetrisek The State Legislature recently approved Gov. 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