Opinion: COVID funding and endless ‘emergency’
California is facing a $24 billion budget deficit in its 2023-24 budget, according a new report by the Legislative Analyst’s Office, but it would be even worse without the national public health emergency that has been extended again by the Biden administration.
The LAO says its fiscal outlook report was prepared on the assumption that the declaration would expire in January 2023, which would have meant higher state costs for Medi-Cal in the fourth quarter of the 2022-23 fiscal year.
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