California Reaches Budget Deal, With Billions Cut

“I would characterize this budget as shared pain and shared sacrifice,” Karen Bass, the speaker of the California Assembly, said in a telephone interview from Sacramento.

Someone’s bullshitting.

While the state’s health insurance program for children, Healthy Families, remains, it was cut by $144 million, meaning thousands of children will probably be on a waiting list for the program unless a private foundation makes up the balance, as the Democratic-controlled Legislature hopes.

Dear US Congress: step it up lest even more California kids suffer.  Oh wait.  Low SES, likely minority.. what do you care.

One of the biggest sticking points was over the $11 billion already cut from public schools. The budget deal calls for roughly $650 million more in cuts.

=\.  My heart hurts for California kids.