U.S. budget cuts would be widely felt across Calif.
By Evan Halper and Sarah D. Wire, Tribune Washington Bureau
President Trump’s budget would deliver a painful financial blow to California, with the potential to push a state that has struggled for years to keep its books balanced back into the kind of red ink that consumed it after the housing market collapse a decade ago.
The only solace state and local officials are taking out of a White House budget plan that would cut most federal departments by about 10 percent to 12 percent is that even Republicans in Congress probably will find all the cuts on the table too hard to stomach.
The president’s blueprint would disrupt almost everything California does, in some cases quite brutally.