Senator Morrell Responds to

Governor Newsom's

Proposed 2019-20 State Budget

Sacramento, California, State Senate   – Senator Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga) January 10, 2019 issued the following statement in response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s state budget proposal for 2019-20:

“The governor pledged in his inaugural address that his administration would be ‘prudent with taxpayer dollars.’ Yet from the outset, his first budget commits to new programs and ongoing spending that put future generations at risk of having to deal with more government debt, already pegged at $1.3 trillion. 

“It forces Californians to buy health insurance or pay a penalty, just after the federal government provided relief from this mandate. Furthermore, the health care system the governor wants to pursue could cost as much as $400 billion. To put that in context, the entire amount of income tax collected from Californians last year was $95 billion and the total state general fund budget is less than half the cost of the governor’s health care plan.  

Senator Mike Morrell

“Living in California is already unaffordable for too many – a key reason why for 15 consecutive years, more residents have moved out of California than moved into our state. Higher taxes would only add to this pressure.

“It is not ‘prudent’ if Democrat leaders in Sacramento also tell taxpayers they have no choice but to foot the bill for their socialistic priorities to increase government control over our lives.”