Brown unveils new state budget proposal
By Katy Murphy, Bay Area News Group
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday unveiled a revised $124 billion general fund budget proposal that restored funding to child care subsidies and other social services, but does not include new money for key legislative priorities such as the Middle Class Scholarship or affordable housing.
The governor did not adjust the budget to reflect major uncertainties about federal health-care funding — a week after the U.S. House of Representatives heightened anxiety in California with its vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash health care spending.
If the Affordable Care Act were repealed, Brown said, “What we’d have to do is ugly, and no one wants to take that up yet. So what we’re doing is we’re going to fight it as hard as we can so that doesn’t happen.”