The current average price of gas in the state of California is $4.85, well about the national average of $3.16. The average weekly grocery bill is just shy of $300.
But hey, if you happen to be a resident of the Golden State, struggling under the weight of your bills while paying the highest gas and income tax rates in the nation, just know your money is being well spent. Not on you, of course. But illegal aliens are making out like bandits.
Feel better yet?
According to this, California will spend nearly $10 billion - that’s billion, with a “b” - on health care for illegal aliens this year. That includes emergency care and hospital stays for uninsured, undocumented migrants who find themselves sick, injured, or needing medical care, but who have no private insurance and no way of paying for it. But because California is run by math deficient, bleeding heart liberals, these illegally-present folks are still included in the state’s Medi-Cal program, which redistributes taxpayer funding to cover health care for low-income individuals.
A California Department of Finance official recently confirmed to Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, that covering illegal aliens under the state-run coverage program will cost California $9.5 billion in the 2024-25 fiscal year, $8.4 billion of which will come from the state’s general fund. According to the numbers, an additional 700,000 illegal aliens in California became eligible for state-funded health care coverage thanks to an expansion of the state’s Medi-Cal program that went into effect in January of 2024, bringing the total number of illegal aliens whose health care is paid for by California taxpayers to about 2.4 million as of last year.
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The governor’s office had originally estimated the cost of covering illegal aliens under the program at about $6 billion, but recently adjusted that to $9.5 billion based on updated data.
That all spells bad news for the state, which is looking down the barrel at a $30 billion deficit and which is already taking out about $7 billion from reserves to help cover costs for this year. Based on the math, DeMaio pointed out that if the state simply declined to use general fund money to cover health care costs for people who shouldn’t even be in this country in the first place, not only would California not have to pull $7 billion from reserves to pay their bills, but it would actually add back a $1 billion surplus to the coffers.
Just don't expect California Democrats to figure that out...or care.
In addition to paying for all their multi-billion-dollar government programs - including health care for illegal aliens, free lawyers for illegal aliens, and costly, ineffective housing projects for homeless people, among others - the state is also facing the possibility of seeing major cuts to their federal funding, which currently makes up about $171 billion - or roughly one-third - of the state’s entire $493 billion budget. President Donald Trump has threatened to pull funding from states that refuse to comply with federal law, including aiding in the deportation of illegal aliens including violent criminals.