Newsom’s Revised Budget Slashes Funding Amid $12 Billion Deficit

Newsom’s Revised Budget Slashes Funding Amid $12 Billion Deficit
California Gov. Gavin Newsom presents his revised 2025-2026 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on May 14, 2025. Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo
Kimberly Hayek
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on May 14 laid out the revised budget for the 2025–2026 fiscal year, compensating for a $12 billion deficit.

During his speech, Newsom said the state anticipates $16 billion in tax revenue losses largely as a result of President Donald Trump’s policies—including tariffs—which he said are attacking California’s “growth engines” and have “created a climate of deep uncertainty.”

Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.