Orange County Cities Grapple With Budget Deficits Due to COVID-19

A view of Irvine, in Orange County, Calif., on June 26, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

IRVINE, Calif.—City officials across Orange County in California are reassessing their budgets to cope with shortfalls resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We approved the budgets in February,” Laguna Niguel Mayor Laurie Davies told The Epoch Times. But when the stay-at-home order went into effect in March, city managers “had to throw that budget out and start all over again.”