Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make California the first state to cover everyone under its Medicaid plan regardless of their immigration status.
High school senior Yovany and his mother Leticia fled Guatemala in the fall of 2017, but Leticia was eventually deported and Yovany was placed in the U.S. foster care system.SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- With state revenues at an all-time high, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday proposed a budget that would cut taxes while also promising to pay theIt will cost state taxpayers about $2.2 billion per year to cover the cost ofcare for the state's low-income immigrants.
California taxpayers already pay the health care costs for low-income immigrants 26 and younger and plans to cover people 50 and older this May. Newsom's proposal would cover everyone else starting in January 2024. The biggest tax cut would be for businesses. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, California temporarily raised taxes on businesses to help offset what they thought would be a huge deficit. Instead, California posted record surpluses. That tax increase was scheduled to expire at the end of this year. Newsom wants to to end it one year early, which would cost the state about $5.5 billion in revenue.
The state did this last year, but families with no incomes weren't eligible. This year, Newsom wants to also give that money to families with no incomes. That would cost about $55 million a year. He also wants to give $1,000 to people who have come through the state's foster care system but are still 25 or younger. That would cost about $20 million.
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