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Finance and LAO warn federal policy changes could sharply affect California revenues and services
Summary
Committee heard officials describe potential effects of proposed federal cuts, executive orders and trade policy on Medi‑Cal, infrastructure funding and the state's economy.
Senate Budget Committee members pressed Department of Finance and Legislative Analyst Office officials for an assessment of how potential federal policy changes could affect state revenues and programs.
Chair Wiener listed federal risks — executive orders and memos from the White House, broad proposals to alter Medicaid, changes to federal infrastructure matching, mass deportation risks and tariffs on major trading partners — and asked Finance and LAO for a sense of possible impacts. LAO analyst Gabe Petek and Finance staff said each of those items could have "significant" impacts. Finance staff…
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