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The California Legislature has just a few days to pass a 2025-26 state budget to meet the state constitution’s June 15 deadline.

By Dan Walters

CalMatters

Opinion

The deadline will be met, if for no other reason than legislators would, at least theoretically, have their salaries suspended were they to miss it.

However, the budget they enact may bear only a passing resemblance to what will eventually, perhaps many months later, become a complete fiscal plan.

The Numbers Don’t Add Up

The revised budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a month ago projects that general fund tax revenues for the year would be about $20 billion short of covering the spending that he has proposed — and that’s after coun

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