Not having access to health care, to home care, to childcare, to food — those things are disabling and can kill, right?” one ...

Legislators, cutting $3.5 billion in funding, endorsed a freeze on state health care for undocumented immigrants but want ...

Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President pro Tem Mike McGuire rejected billions in cuts proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last ...

One can make a reasonable case for a higher asset limit, but removing it opened the system to abuse. This is a safety-net ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed major cuts to Medi-Cal and other social programs to close a $12 billion deficit. Democrats in the ...

Newsom has long supported providing affordable health care to Californians regardless of their immigration status. His May budget proposal blocks access beginning in 2026 to new Medi-Cal enrollees who ...

The budget state lawmakers approved rejects some Medi-Cal cuts, and pays for public transit and higher education. Now the real negotiations with Newsom begin.

Calling the Healdsburg Democrat and Senate president an ally of immigrant communities, the demonstrators demanded he take a ...

Nearly a month after Governor Gavin Newsom proposed pausing the expansion of publicly funded healthcare for undocumented Californians, Democratic lawmakers are drawing a line in the sand. This ...

California lawmakers scaled back Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed Medi-Cal cuts this week. But critics say the revised plan still unfairly targets the immigrant community.