SACRAMENTO (May 14, 2025) – Today, Assemblymember Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) provided a statement on the Governor’s May Revision to the State Budget:

“Today during his budget update, the Governor blamed the President for California’s poor budget situation. Shifting blame doesn’t help fix California’s issues. 

The majority party is planning to continue diverting $7 billion in this updated budget from the sacred rainy day fund to balance the budget, despite revenues exceeding expectations by $7.9 billion. Additionally, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) suggests that revenues are unlikely to grow fast enough to catch up with atypically high spending growth. There is a bottom line that the Governor continues to ignore: The California Legislature continues to create programs it cannot pay for.

In my third year as an Assemblymember, I repeat myself: we need to set priorities for state spending. These dollars are hard-earned taxpayer dollars. The LAO points out that ‘outside of healthcare and government, California has added no jobs in a year and a half’ leading to a ‘sluggish economy.’ The Governor boasts about being the fourth largest economy in the world. California is struggling with a budget deficit for the third year in a row while watching jobs, people and their taxpayer dollars leave the state.

In the words of Minority Leader Gallagher ‘Newsom’s finger-pointing on the budget shortfall is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever seen from a politician…We’re in this mess because of his reckless spending, false promises, and failed leadership.’”

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