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By BoTefu | California Black Media
A day after the U. S. House of Representatives voted to approve a resolution cutting nearly $2 trillion from the federal budget, Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley) informed Californians that the state will not be able to fill in the anticipated gap in federal funds.
Chairing an Assembly Budget Committee hearing on Feb. 26, Jackson said, “California cannot save you. The cuts are that devastating. That bad. That disgusting. So, if you are on Medi-Cal, if you’re receiving CalFresh, if you are getting housing support, if you’re getting support for childcare, if you’re getting SSI [Supplemental Security Income], you are in big trouble.”
“Given what Republicans have just voted on last night, I just don’t see that California will have what we need to ensure that people will continue to get their payments, continue to get their healthcare, continue to get assistance with their housing,” Jackson stated.
Jackson pointed out that House Republicans from California also voted for the cuts and urged people to “make it clear” to their representatives that they are “voting against the interest of the people they profess to represent.”
A representative from the California Department of Finance who testified at the hearing, said, “We are analyzing all the federal funding we receive, but with that said, there is no way the general fund can backfill the loss of federal funds.”
U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) said she voted “hell no” on the resolution she is calling the “Republican rip-off.”
“I refuse to be complicit in Donald Trump and House Republicans’ attempts to steal from my constituents. Hell no to raising health care premiums by $2,020 a year; hell no on ripping food assistance away from 40 million Americans; and hell no on giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the Billionaire Boys Club,” Kamlager-Dove said in a statement.
