California’s sanctuary delusion just hit a wall—hard. After expanding Medi-Cal to illegal immigrants, the state is now $3.44 billion short and scrambling for cash. Newsom promised “universal access” but forgot the part where someone actually has to pay for it. Now, taxpayers are on the hook as the state sinks deeper into financial ruin.
Newsome Forced to Borrow 3.44 Billion for Illegals’ Medicaid
The State of California must borrow $3.44 billion dollars to cover a shortfall in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medcaid program — a year after expanding it to offer free health care to illegal aliens.
As Breitbart News reported at the time: “Beginning January 1, 2024, illegal aliens residing in California will become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance — the first state in the nation to enact such a policy.”
Governor Gavin Newsom had boasted of the budget agreement that made such a dramatic offer possible: “With these new investments [sic], California will become the first state to achieve universal access to health care coverage,” he had Newsom said in a statement in June 2022.
But after a year, it is clear that the Golden State lacks the cash to follow through on that commitment.