Newsom signs $2.8B bailout for healthcare program overrun by illegal immigrants

Liberal Gavin News He signed a $ 2.8 billion rescue on Monday to close a state -informed deficit in Medicaid California, which surpassed projections due to expanding the program last year to include illegal immigrants.

The move, on Monday afternoon, confirmed the Newsom’s Fox News Digital Office comes after Democratic governor They requested the legislators last month for a $ 3.4 billion loan from the state general fund to cover about $ 6.2 billion in the remaining costs for media, one of the state programs of primary health care that is taken by both state and state taxpayers. Additional funds will help the program pass through June for about 15 million California, including unclear.

But the Republicans were critical of the loan, claiming that the current Medicaid program was not sustainable with the illegal immigrants involved in cover.

News is looking for an almost additional $ 3B for a state health program that has been flooded with illegal immigrants

Government Gavin News pauses during a press conference after visiting the Barron Park Elementary School in Palo Alta, California on March 2, 2021. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

“Meanwhile, Health care The approach fell. The waiting time is growing. Democrats decided: Legal residents come second, “California Republican leader of minority Senate, Brian Jones, wrote on X.” We need to stop new enrollments of illegal immigrants and renovate this unsustainable program before it completely collapses. “

According to state data, approximately 1.6 million illegal immigrants are currently enrolled in Medi-Cal, part of a total of 15 million enrolled programs. The state initially predicted that the extension would cost just under $ 6 billion for a fiscal year 2024–2025. But only a year, the costs have increased the past and the estimates.

The latest NEWSOM budget proposal is now the cost of covering illegal immigrants to $ 8.4 billion for $ 2024-2025, and next year $ 7.4 billion.

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Illegal migrants deny the US coastal guard outside southern California. (USCG South California via x)

Meanwhile, the state Republicans in the house they push back. The new proposal to GOP aims to reduce $ 880 billion, primarily from Medicaid, over the next decade to overwhelm what they say is reckless state consumption.

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Fox News Digital addressed the Newsom’s comment office.

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