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Brown Releases His Updated California Budget Proposal

  •  Katie Orr 
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 | Sacramento, CA
Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio
 

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California Governor Jerry Brown has released his updated spending plan for the coming fiscal year. The $156 billion total budget is bolstered by the state's economic turnaround and voter-approved tax hikes. That’s an $11 billion increase over last year and Brown is reluctant to spend more. He points out there have been 11 budget deficits in the last 15 years, and only 3 surpluses. He says history shows the state will likely find itself in another deficit situation again unless spending is restrained.  

“I find arguing with reality a very chancy endeavor,” he says. “And the reality is the numbers I’ve laid before you. That is the given and we will live with it and work with it in the best we can in the spirit of comity and transparent and open negotiations.”

His message was met with cautious approval by Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff called Brown’s proposal relatively austere, though he notes the multi-billion dollar spending increase over last year. But Huff says Brown is right to keep costs down.      

“We have to take care of our existing programs before we can start new ones,” he says. “That’s just disingenuous to start something you can’t continue. And that’s what leads to this whole boom and bust, the government ramping up programs then having to chop them off. And that’s probably the most cruel thing a government can do, to set up something it can’t sustain.”

Progressives say, after years of budget cuts, it’s time to restore social services millions of people depend on.

Brown does allocate more money for schools, Medi-Cal and paying off debt. He’s also proposing $1.6 billion be deposited in the state’s reserve. 

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Katie Orr reported for Capital Public Radio News through December 2015.  Read Full Bio 

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