COVID-19 impact felt in Newsom’s revised budget figures

Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his revised state budget proposal Thursday, with deep cuts in education and health care funding as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $203.3 billion budget is nearly $20 billion less than Newsom’s initial budget proposal in January and includes about $6 billion in eliminated plans to expand programs like Medi-Cal, prompted by a roughly 25 percent drop in sales, personal income and corporate tax revenue.