Assembly Floor

Assembly is now in session. Assembly Member Jeff Gonzalez notices the absence of a quorum. Sergeant in arms will prepare the chamber. Bring in the Members. Clerk will call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Members, if we could have you on the floor, please. All Members report to the carpet. Thank you. Thank you, Members.

Thank you. Members, please come to your desks. Please report to your desks. Okay, Members, we're going to get started. A quorum is present. We ask our guests and visitors in the rear of the chamber and in the gallery to please stand for the prayer. Reverend Oshita will offer today's prayer. Reverend Oshita.

Please join me in a moment of reflection. In August of 1986, 2 years after we came to Sacramento, there was a horrific plane crash of a Japan Airline 747 passenger jet. It was a commuter flight going from Japan's two major cities of Tokyo to Osaka.

12 minutes after takeoff, there was a catastrophic malfunction and the 509 passengers were told to prepare for a crash landing. There were only four survivors. Back then, we subscribed to the still existing Life magazine. Life magazine had an unforgettable article that focused on hastily written notes found scattered throughout the crash site.

The passengers were predominantly commuting businessmen, so most of the notes found were from husbands to wives, fathers to children. Two notes that we read had never left me. One husband wrote to his wife simply saying, it was a good life with you.

A father wrote to his children saying, please grow up to become the kind of person that people will love. Their deepest love and hope condensed into single sentences written from their hearts. If we were told that we might have only minutes to live, who would we write to and what would we want to say?

The recent tragedy of the Air India flight reminded me again that we must try to share from our hearts our love and gratitude and our deepest wishes for the people we love while we can. Namasu Let us live with kindness and gratitude be onwards.

We ask our guests and visitors to remain standing to join us in the flag salute. Assemblymember Bennett will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I invite the On Time Caucus to join me in a pledge to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag and. To the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all,

May be seated to our guests and visitors today. State law prohibits persons in the gallery from interfering with legislative proceedings or disrupting the orderly conduct of official business. Persons disrupting legislative proceedings are subject to removal, arrest or other appropriate legal remedies. Reading of the previous day's Journal.

Assembly Chamber Sacramento Thursday, May 292025 the Assembly met at 9am The Honorable Jo Lowenthal, speaker, votes Employee of the Assembly Presiding Chief Clerk Sue Parker at the desk reading. Clerk David A. Bowman reading.

Majority Leader Aguiar Curry moves and Mr. Flora seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with presentations and petitions. There are none. Introduction and reference of bills will be deferred. Reports of committees will be deemed read and amendments deemed adopted. Messages from the Governor? There are none. Messages from the Senate? There are none.

Moving on to motions and resolutions. The absences for the day for personal business. Assembly Members Petrie, Norris and Wallace. For family illness. Assembly Member Sharpe Collins. We are moving on to business on the daily file. Assembly third reading we're going to pass maintain on all items. And that brings us to item number six. Senate Bill number 101. Senate third reading by Senator Wiener presented by Assemblymember Gabriel. The Clerk will read.

The Senate Bill 101, with amendments by Assemblymember Sanchez.

Assemblymember Sanchez, you are recognized on the amendments.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I rise to introduce amendments to the Senate Bill that will better align with the priorities of Californians. These amends will listen to voters and fully fund Prop 36 which provides 400 million dollars to create alternative treatment pathways like mental health and drug treatment programs to care for individuals convicted of treatment-mandated felonies.

Would also prioritize preventing massive wildfires by giving CAL FIRE 500 million for wildfire prevention work that reduces flammable fuel loads in the state's forests. Saves California drivers up to 850 dollars per year on gas costs by repealing Air Board's November regulation. Changes to the low-carbon fuel standards.

Increases reimbursement rates for Medi Cal providers to ensure we have enough doctors available to provide health care to low-income Californians. Protects the most vulnerable Californians by ensuring that benefits and services for developmentally disabled individuals are not cut in the budget this year.

Prioritizes low-income and senior California residents in Medi-Cal by stopping the out-of-control cost increases associated with providing full health care services to illegal immigrants. Makes a responsible decision to stop throwing good money after bad by defunding the high-speed rail and replacing with shovel-ready projects. Members, let's restore some common sense to California. And I urge and aye vote for.

Thank you, Assemblymember Sanchez. Madam Majority Leader, you are recognized.

Seconded by Assistant Majority Leader Garcia. This motion is not debatable. Members, this takes a majority of those present and voting. Members, this is a procedural vote. The Majority Leader is asking for an aye vote.

I'll move to lay the amendments on the table.

Mr. Flora is asking for a no vote. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Just a moment. Ms. Ortega, would you mind walking up here for a moment, please?

Okay. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 43. No's, 18. The amendments are laid on the table. Assemblymember Gabriel, you are recognized on the measure Senate Bill 101. Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 101 by Senator Wiener and accolade to the state budget to take effect immediately. Budget Bill.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And before I present on the bill today, I just wanted to begin with a few thank yous. Before I became Chair of the Budget Committee, I did not appreciate how much work and energy, and effort goes into crafting the budget for the world's fourth-largest economy.

And so I just wanted to start today by saying thank you to a few people who have made this, this moment possible. First, of course, our speaker for his leadership. Also to our incredibly talented budget subcommittee chairs who have worked day and night. The members of their subcommittees.

Our Budget Subcommittee chairs have really been, as you know, a focal point in this process. And collectively have, we have had 68 hearings in the Budget Committee to arrive at this moment. They have sat through literally thousands of hours of public comment, and I just wanted to thank them. Also, thank you to our Vice Chair, Mr. Flora.

We don't always agree on policy, but it is a pleasure to work with you. To our incredibly hardworking Assembly Budget Committee staff, led by Christian Griffith, I also want to acknowledge the Republican staff who've worked very hard to bring us to this moment.

Jason Sisney in the speaker's office and all of the staff from all of the offices that have been involved in this, and, of course, Legislative Council.

While we may not all agree on the contents of this budget, I think we can all agree that we're very grateful for the hard work of those who have brought us to this moment. Colleagues, as we did last year, I believe it's important to remind ourselves how we have arrived at this moment.

While it may seem like several lifetimes ago, when the governor unveiled his initial budget proposal in early January, the Department of Finance was projecting a small surplus. President Biden was still in office, and the Palisades and Altadena were still standing. Since that time, our state has faced unprecedented threats and challenges. Devastating wildfires in Los Angeles.

Chaos and uncertainty from President Trump's ever-changing tariffs and incoherent economic policy. Politically motivated threats to withhold federal funding from California. An ongoing effort in Congress to massively defund health care and safety net programs, and now a direct federal assault on our state.

And just a month ago, we learned in the governor's May revision proposal that we would need to bridge a 12 billion dollar deficit and prepare for rapidly increasing out-year challenges. But our Budget Subcommittees met that challenge with an approach rooted in compassion and responsibility.

Our legislative budget offers alternatives to the governor's proposals that better protect key health care and safety net programs that are essential to our most vulnerable communities. It includes smart, targeted investments in critical housing, education, wildfire, resilience, and public safety programs and advances landmark policies that will fast-track housing construction and improve affordability.

And at the same time, the legislative budget also puts our state on a stronger path to fiscal responsibility. It reflects tough choices that have required us to tighten our belts, and it takes meaningful steps to address our structural deficit. But it does so in a manner that preserves flexibility in the face of tremendous uncertainty and threats.

Our budget proposal builds in delays to some of the most consequential cuts to allow for more time for the legislature to consider alternatives and potential unintended consequences. And it provides time for us to thoughtfully consider how we might best respond to the devastating federal cuts currently being debated in Washington, D.C.

But let me be clear, this has been a painful and at times agonizing process. The legislative budget is the result of hard conversations and impossible choices.

Given the magnitude of the challenges and the depth of the uncertainty, it was not easy to craft this initial agreement, and we understand that there is more work ahead to reach a final agreement. As we move forward with negotiations, the assembly will be guided by our twin goals of compassion and fiscal responsibility.

We cannot balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable. We cannot ignore the real challenges facing middle-class and working families. But we also refuse to ignore the real fiscal challenges facing our state.

We hope that the solutions presented in our legislative budget can help to guide that conversation and that together we can pass a budget that meets the needs of our diverse communities in this unprecedented moment. For those reasons, I ask for your aye vote on SB101.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gabriel, Assemblymember Flora, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues, I too just rise and say thank you to the hard-working staff behind us today. Drafting the budget for the size of the economy, trying to do what we talked about in budget the most amount of good for the most amount of people is not easy, and we don't always agree.

But I know the hearts and souls and the policies and things that we fund are all out of a good place. Sadly, though, I do rise in opposition to the budget that we're talking about today. And I know my colleagues are going to have more to say about this.

But as we move through into the trailer bills, let's keep these conversations going. Let's continue the dialogue, and I look forward to working with you. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Flora. Assemblymember DeMaio, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in strong opposition to SB101. I've spent 30 years working on government budgets at the federal, state, local levels, and I've actually worked with Democrats and Republicans and everyone in between. I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.

And let me just tell you, this is one of the most dishonest, destructive, irresponsible budgets I have ever seen. And in California, there's a lot of competition for that title. You all have a plan, the majority has a plan.

And for those citizens out there that aren't paying attention, let me just tell you what's going to basically come about the next 90 days. Step one of this majority and this governor is to pass a phony budget.

And then they're going to claim, hey, we did our job, we balanced the budget, give us our salaries under the Constitution, but it's all lie. Step two, when the wheels come off this cart and the budget deficit is exposed, blame Donald Trump, even though your budget deficit existed far before Donald Trump even got reelected to the office.

Third, after blaming Donald Trump for your problems, raised taxes on working families in California. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. That is the storyline that we have suffered under. And I think California voters are going to see through it. This budget contains 13.7 billion dollars in accounting gimmicks. It is not balanced.

Raids on reserves, fund shifts pushing forward expenditures to future budget years. It underfunds public safety by not funding Prop 36, which is the voters' priority, and underfunding critical wildland fire risk reduction programs. It provides a grift for powerful political donors in the form of a billion dollars for the high-speed rail boondoggle project.

And by the way, it makes permanent that project by basically locking in a 19 billion dollar bond for the next 10 years so that that program literally can never be terminated. And finally, it cuts key social services for the neediest Californians among us. And this is where you are so callous.

The disabled, the elderly, poor children will have their health coverage curtailed and cut back. And California citizens will wait longer for life-saving medical care because of the irresponsible medical decisions that you're making in today's budget. You have inserted a poison pill in this budget and you know damn well that you've done it.

Mr. DeMaio. Mr. DeMaio, we do not use that language on the floor. We just use decorum.

A poison pill that will result in an 11.2 billion dollar cut in Medicaid funding from the Federal Government to the State of California. And that is for citizen services. And you are knowingly doing that. You are recklessly doing that.

And when the cut comes, comes due, when we're penalized, you're like the drunk driver blaming the cop who pulled you over and gave you the ticket. It wasn't your own drinking that was the responsibility, it was the cops' fault for your woes. Well, your woes actually are the pain and suffering of California needy families.

Why are you doing it? So you can give 12.1 billion in a gift of public funds to illegal immigrants. Prioritizing illegal immigrants over your own citizens. I would say I'm shocked. But it's part and parcel with a lot of other part policies and rhetoric that I've seen from the other side in recent months.

Look, budgets are not financial documents. I know they have a lot of ones and zeros and commas in them. At their heart, government budgets are values documents. They reflect the priorities of our elected officials. And let me tell you, your priorities stink.

Mr. DeMaio, Mr. DeMaio.

I urge you on SB101.

Mr. DeMaio, you are out of order. For all members that are in here, I want to draw your attention to section 120 of Masons. Freedom of speech on this floor involves obedience to all the rules of debate. The language used by members during debate should be temperate, decorous, decorous and respectful.

No member may impugn the motives of members.

Assemblymember Schultz, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I rise in response to the comments from our colleague from San Diego. Without questioning his motivation, I have to assume that perhaps our colleague simply didn't read the bill or didn't read the summary prepared by staff. I'm here to rise on one particular point.

Our colleague made a suggestion that the bill does not adequately fund public safety or does not fund the will of the voters in ensuring that Proposition 36 is carried into fruition. Nothing could be further from the truth. That is a false statement. I would just like to note, in referring to my notes not reading, Mr. Speaker, that there are substantial portions of money in the budget to fulfill the will of the voters.

In fact, there's $110 million earmarked for the implementation of Proposition 36, largely for behavioral health. There's also $29 million for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to account for an increased prison population.

There's $127 million to the BCC for grants that can be used for treatment under Proposition 36. In fact, there is nearly $350 million earmarked for public safety. So I humbly ask Mr. Speaker that we stick to the facts in this debate.

Thank you, Assemblymember Schultz. Assemblymember Addis, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I rise today as Chair of Subcommittee No. 1 on Health in strong support of SB 101. And while I share the deep concern that many of us feel about recent events and how we navigate this moment, I also stand here proud.

Proud to serve along colleagues who are committed to justice, proud of the work being done to protect the most vulnerable, and proud to be part of a legislature where service and compassion lead.

And I want to thank our speaker, our Budget Chair, my fellow Health Budget Subcommittee members from across California, colleagues on both sides of the aisle who participated in our public hearings and actually were complimentary at our last budget hearing.

I also want to thank the hundreds of advocates and patients who made their voices heard and whose stories shaped this budget. But most importantly, I want to thank our budget staff, who work tirelessly, literally sometimes all night, with grace and with skill, because they too care deeply about California.

And when we gavel into the Health Subcommittee's hearings, there are two things on my mind. The first, just like you, is how do we create a California where we provide the care that people need? And the second, just like all of you, is how do we steward the taxpayers dollars with responsibility and with transparency?

And so I want to be clear that this budget absolutely does both. It reflects fiscal responsibility, compassion, accountability. And it's true that budgets do reflect our values and this budget values Californians. SB101 is the result of months of rigorous work to examine the funding for departments that ensures that 94% of Californians have health care.

This includes funding for Medi-Cal that serves 15 million people and supports rural and public hospitals and clinics and draws billions of dollars into local communities. This includes abortion services and family planning. Many of us have pins on today or we're wearing pink. And we staved off massive cuts to family planning this year.

We talked about LGBT services and AIDS prevention that is literally disappearing from many states. We talked about dental care, behavioral health, emergency preparedness, physician training, services for the aging and those with disabilities, and affordability initiatives like CalRx and OCHA.

And we had special hearings on the harsh federal cuts already made by the federal government to public health and to Title X family planning. It's not hypothetical harm that we talked about, it's real dollars that were gone in an instant. And all through it, we heard from people, Californians who came in wheelchairs, Californians who came on ventilators, people in recovery, people with mental health challenges.

We heard from AIDS survivors. We heard from caregivers and advocates from every corner of California who spoke up when people themselves could not speak. And their messages were very clear. They said two things to us.

First, they said, thank you for funding the programs that save our lives. And second, they said, please do not cut the programs that keep me alive. And so crafting this budget wasn't easy and it's not perfect. And we did have to think about our fiscal limits balanced with our constituents urgent needs.

And with all this being said, our fiscal needs are not the greatest threat. The greatest threat is not in this building. The greatest threat actually is in Washington. It's the federal administration who right now is using division and fear to justify robbing our tax dollars from health care to provide political rewards and tax breaks for the wealthy.

And so as DC walks away from its promise, that's not what we're doing here in California. We are holding the line. And the budget isn't perfect, but it does reflect our values.

It does reflect protecting women's health and abortion access by not only saying no to Planned Parenthood and other organizations losing one third of their funding, as was proposed in the May Revise, but keeping family planning, women's health and abortion care whole.

We also safeguarded care for seniors and end of life and long term care, defended LGBT health services, preserved Medi-Cal, reducing and delaying further harm, defended dental care and invested in behavioral health, substance abuse, disparity reduction and diversion programs.

And so in this time of uncertainty, we are here to stand with California's people because in reality, those of us in this room are California's people. So I thank you Members, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote on SB 101.

Thank you, Assemblymember Addis. Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, I'd like to thank the staff of the Budget Committee. Look, this is not easy. Nothing is easy. When you run a business, it is not easy to account for everything.

And the staff, first and foremost, we should all be reaching out across the aisle and saying thank you for your hard work, for everything that you've done, because there are multiple viewpoints that they have to consider. They have to look at the ones and zeros across the board.

So first and foremost, I rise in support of the staff who have worked tirelessly to try and figure this piece of it out.

Secondly, my colleagues, all colleagues, both across the aisle and here within the caucus, I would say that we all have our perspective and our viewpoints, and it's important that we look at all of this in its totality. We might agree with one thing and disagree with another thing, so on, so forth.

But what I'm getting from the district, from Californians is the question of-- Got it, we're here today. We could play the blame game and who did what and what else, but they're looking for action and they're looking for clarity.

So let me bring clarity for those of tens of thousands, if not millions, of Californians that are listening today. This is one step in multiple steps that will take place throughout the next several months, right? So this is an imperfect solution. We would like a perfect solution, right? But this is an imperfect solution.

This is a day one solution. Now we have to come back and introduce other pieces to this puzzle to help formulate a better budget. So this is going to keep on going forward. So Californians who are listening understand that this is not the end. This is just one piece of the puzzle.

And lastly, I would urge Californians, wherever you land, wherever you're at, utilize your voice. Reach out to your legislators that are here and let them know where you stand so that way they can advocate for you. Because we are not in charge of this, you are in charge of this. So use your voice.

Use your voice peacefully so that your will can be done. And we can accomplish that here. So I get it. We all want to fight and we all want to do everything, but we need to come back to the middle, where California is not asking for a Democrat solution. They're not asking for a Republican solution.

They're asking for a solution that impacts them in their home. And we have to put all of our biases aside and think of them first. So in that, I rise to say to my fellow colleagues, let's come together, let's use decorum, and let's figure out a solution. I get it.

It's not perfect, but we have to come to that, not for us, but for California. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Jeff Gonzalez. Assemblymember Gallagher, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members. And I also want to start by saying this was a difficult job for the Budget Chair, for the members of the Budget Committee, for the staff who've been working on this. We know that we were facing massive deficits.

And when you have deficits and you have to make tough decisions, that's certainly not an easy thing to do. So I do appreciate the gravity of that situation. But I think it also has to be said that we are in this place because we've had reckless spending over many years.

And our LAO, Legislative Analyst Office, has told us many times over the time that I've been here that the spending is not sustainable, that soon you will be facing these kinds of deficits. They warned us in report after report. So we shouldn't be surprised, first of all, by where we are today.

And you know, the reason that I can't support this budget today is for a few reasons. First of all, we aren't truly dealing with that, reining in spending and ensuring that we're being fiscally responsible. And perhaps the biggest example that is in continuing to fund health care under our Medi-Cal program for illegal immigrants.

We simply cannot afford it. In this budget, it makes it clear. It's $12.1 billion that you're going to have to spend to keep that commitment that you made. When that originally was proposed, it was said it would be a $4 billion cost. It's $12 billion. It is clearly not sustainable and not feasible.

And what I worry about most is what has already been said on this floor, is that as we get further down the year and we realize it's not sustainable, you will have to make cuts. And likely those cuts are going to come to the most vulnerable. I'm proud of the Republican caucus.

I'm proud of the minority party who I think actually played a pretty big influence on this budget in calling for IHSS funding to be restored for the funding for developmentally disabled. And you heard that call and you've done that. In this budget, it is restored. I give credit for that. We were calling for that.

But I worry that as we get down the road, it's very clear we still have $5.5 billion that is kind of papered over here. Where are those cuts going to come from? We're putting ourselves in a really bad position.

And the most vulnerable are the ones who are going to pay that price if we don't get this right and we don't get back to fiscal sanity. I also am proud of the minority party pushing for Prop 36 to get funded. And the gentleman's right, it is funded in this. The governor wanted zero.

The governor had no money to fund Prop 36. He wanted to ignore the will of the voters. And so this budget does have $200 million. Problem is this. It needs to be $400 million to fully fund Prop 36. That's what the voters demanded.

That was what was in our amendment, by the way, that you could have voted for to fully fund Prop 36 and keep the promise of the voters. So movement in the right direction, but we're still not where we need to be.

And, oh by the way, all of our consumers out there who are about to get another gas tax hike come July 1, this budget doesn't do anything about that. They're going to pay the price again. So again, our people are paying the price of our inability to bring back fiscal sanity in this state.

And lastly, I want to talk about wildfire. We're coming on the heels of another devastating wildfire in Los Angeles. I've been in this chamber for going on 11 years now, been talking about this issue for many years.

And in this budget is only $200 million under the Greenhouse Gas Fund. The Greenhouse Gas Fund is putting a billion dollars towards high speed rail and 200 million towards wildfire prevention. That should be reversed. Actually high speed rails should be getting nothing and a billion dollars should be going to wildfire.

That's what we did in 2021, by the way, in the aftermath of the Dixie Fire, one of the last devastating fires to hit the state, but certainly not the only.

Thank you, Leader Gallagher. Thank you, Leader Gallagher.

Mr. Speaker, this is really important. I would ask--

I agree, it is very important. We're all allotted five minutes.

Mr. Speaker, we need to ensure that that's a billion dollars. It's not in this budget. Our priorities are misplaced if we don't do it. And the Governor continues to cut that money, we should--

Thank you, Leader Gallagher. Thank you. Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stand today with gratitude and dismay. Gratitude for all of the advocacy and work on this Budget that has improved significantly since it was proposed. Dismay because I still feel—I feel it still—includes plans that perpetuate a dangerous narrative that immigrant families and communities are less than.

When the May Revise was published, I was offended, and I was told to not take the Budget personally. I do not have the privilege to not take it personally. I am a woman. The proposal to take away reproductive care was personal. I am a mother. Not respecting the value and importance of childcare is personal.

I am a granddaughter of Soledad, may she rest in peace, who had Medi-Cal and IHSS support during the day. Then, my family and I would take turns doing her nighttime routine after work. The threat to take IHSS was personal.

Thank you to every single person and organization who helped preserve critical services in this proposed Budget, even in a small way. But we fell short. This Budget proposes, with zero immediate savings, the elimination of health care for Californians who need it and deserve it.

Those of us that have been on Medi-Cal, those of us who have communities that have had to navigate the system, those of us who have ever worked on the implementation of policies and programs know the consequences of this action. Health care for all is a milestone that we cannot walk back.

It lowers health care costs by expanding access to preventable care and saving millions for taxpayers. It reduces health disparities. It improves the overall health of the workforce. It enhances economic stability and reduces poverty. Proposing to walk it back will have the opposite impact.

It has the potential of increasing costs and even shutting down clinics and communities that need it most. It will increase health disparities. It will compromise the health of the workforce. It will lead to economic instability and increased poverty. That is not why my community sent me here. I am here to help improve lives, not harm them.

Even the suggestion that we slash programs on the backs of immigrants who, let's be clear, pay taxes, is not acceptable. These communities, communities that look like mine, are being hunted and kidnapped and disappeared. It is terror and it is traumatizing to everyone who witnesses it.

We cannot simultaneously validate the false narrative of the Trump Administration that our community is to be blamed for all of our challenges. Just yesterday, the Senator raised by my community was violently wrestled to the ground. So many of us declared that we stand with him and that we stand for California's values.

I personally cannot stand for DACA kids who are now adults, who get a seasonal job to be thrown off of healthcare for the rest of their lives.

I cannot stand for a young woman who gets pregnant and can't keep up with the monthly premium imposed on her and people like her to not have prenatal care, or a child watch their parents suffer through cancer because they don't have medical coverage.

We cannot in good conscience support a budget that creates a two-tier health care system. We cannot contribute to the fear and suffering of communities across our state, and I implore us all to consider alternatives.

I agree with all of the good this Budget advances, and I can only vote "Yes" today with the trust in my colleagues that we will fix this before it goes into effect.

Thank you, Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez. Assemblymember Patterson, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I talked a little bit about this in Budget Committee, which I've had an opportunity to serve on and—for three years now. And it's been—it's oddly kind of one of my favorite committees to be on with all the interesting topic topics that happen here.

I do think, actually, raised a lot of good points by the prior Member that spoke. The Budget that we were presented, again, for the second year in a row by the Administration, it was a complete joke. It was laughable. And so, in some ways I commend the Legislature for putting together something that, that at least deserves a vote.

Mine will be "No," but at least does some things that aren't as dishonorable as what was presented to us.

Because it is embarrassing that when the Governor says one of the top priorities in this state is housing and he zeros out every dollar for housing, how are we supposed to accomplish the objectives that he's laid out and put no money behind or no effort? All that effort on housing has come from the Legislature, not the Administration.

How embarrassing is it for the State of California?

And to be lectured by this Governor on the values of this state when you defund IHSS, when you defund our critical health care system for everybody, for everybody in this state, for the developmentally disabled, for those with disabilities, the most—the people that need the help the most—were the first to lose coverage under this Governor, for the second year in a row.

It's disgusting. And I do think it's nice that this Legislature has done something, although not enough, to put in money for Proposition 36, which the voters have demanded time and time again and continue to demand an effort on public safety. So, the Legislature has at least put forward something that is serious.

But what you received in the May Revise for the second year in a row was not a serious document. 22 years ago, when I had a full head of hair, Mr. Speaker, I started as an intern in this place, and 15 years ago, this budget cycle, I actually worked for a Republican leader. At the time, we had a few more Republicans, at that time.

Not to be partisan or anything like that, but I was working for that Republican leader and many of the issues a decade and a half ago are exactly the same today as they were back then.

I remember sitting, meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting, with people concerned about their medical being cut or not enough reimbursement rates to our health care providers. It's the same exact issue 15 years later, despite government revenues going through the roof.

So, I know a lot of people in this body want to expand Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants. I understand that. But there's a systemic issue with Medi-Cal funding. You can't get access. If you're on Medi-Cal, go through the directory and try to find a doctor, especially if you have a special need, try to find a doctor.

We have to address the systemic issues around health care in this state, and we have not done that. And that goes more to Proposition 35, which this Budget doesn't comply with the will of the voters. We're taking money away from the providers.

We have a lack of providers already, and this money takes away. If we want to expand health car, if you actually want to expand access, we have to make sure there are enough providers out there.

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I won't get in too much about what this does to education funding. Again, for the second year in a row, it borrows from Proposition 98.

It borrows off the backs of our students, and it does nothing to do what, time and time again, people have said is the most important issue to them, and that's the cost of living. So, with that, I respectfully ask for a "No" vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Patterson. 22 years ago, my hair was brown. Assemblymember Elhawary, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I want to start by acknowledging the incredible amount of work that's gone into this Budget. I know how difficult it is to make decisions, these decisions, especially in a year like this, when every dollar feels stretched and every choice feels heavy. That's why it pains me to say this.

If we move forward with freezing Medi-Cal enrollment and charging premiums to our immigrant population, we are no better than the Trump Administration. We're just doing harm in a different way. The Federal Administration targeted immigrant communities with force, and we are targeting them through this Budget by basically cutting off their access to health care.

This Budget is, is being balanced on the backs of the most vulnerable. Freezing Medi-Cal doesn't save money. It forces people to delay care, go to emergency rooms, or forego treatment altogether. That costs more in the long run and more importantly, it costs lives.

I'm asking that we delay implementation of the Medi-Cal enrollment freeze to at least July of 2026 so we have time to work on real solutions that protect people, not punish them. At the same time, we must remove restrictions on the Equal Access Fund that limit legal aid groups' ability to serve the most vulnerable.

And we need more funding for immigration legal services to meet the growing need across our communities. In my district, in South Central LA, families are already living in fear because ICE is active. People are afraid to go to work, to wait for the bus, to attend their children's graduations.

And just yesterday, we were notified of an ICE visit to a health clinic. Think about that. People are afraid to seek access to medical care. We will only be making it harder for them to get health care if we agree to this two-tiered system and enrollment freeze. We will be exacerbating an already devastating situation.

If we say we stand with our immigrant communities, then we have to stand with them fully. Otherwise, we risk becoming complicit in the very harm we have promised to protect them from. We have 197 billionaires in this state and their wealth has continued to grow, year after year.

Meanwhile, the families in our districts are falling further and further behind. If their wealth keeps growing, they can afford to pay more, especially when the alternative is asking low-income families to go without the care they need to survive.

I urge us to think hard about what kind of California we are shaping with this budget and who we are asking to pay the price in this moment, when stakes are so high.

I will be voting on this Budget today with the understanding that we continue having conversations to address the issues I've shared with you all today. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Elhawary. Assemblymember Arambula, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I originally was not planning on rising and speaking today, but I was inspired by Members, our colleagues here today, about the importance of making sure that our voice was included.

I want to share with you my lived experience, having practiced medicine for 10 years on the front lines of health care. Having seen 50,000 patients myself, an experience I oftentimes do not speak about on this floor, an experience that still is traumatic to me years later because of seeing what happens to our immigrant communities when they are denied access to regular and preventative care.

When our immigrant communities have nowhere else to go but emergency rooms, seeking care in the last moments, the last seconds of their lives, it was providers like me who oftentimes had to have those hard conversations with family members. And so, I know the ramifications of the Budget that we are going to be voting on today.

And I wish that to speak about a value that we have stood up, time and time again on this floor, that health care is a human right for all, regardless of immigration status, and that we can't be party to creating a two-tiered health care system that sees others as less than. That will freeze them out of health care, that will insist that they pay premiums, is a party that now is not standing up for the working people who we called essential during this Pandemic of the same century, and now, we are treating like they are expendable.

It is for those reasons that, for the first time in my career here in the Assembly, I will not be supporting this Budget today. I will be sending a message that we need to make changes to this Budget, before I can support this going forward.

We need to be a party that stands up for the vulnerable, that stands up for the poor, that stands up for those who are waking up before the sun is up—who are building our roads, who are taking care of our disabled, our elderly, and our children, who, for too often, are not valued.

But here in the people's House, we have to do the people's work, and I will continue to be a representative for all here in our state. And so, unfortunately, I must recommend a "No" vote here today and thank you for allowing me to speak my mind.

Thank you, Assemblymember Arambula. Assemblymember Bonta, you are recognized.

Thank you, Members. This Budget, SB 101, helps mitigate some of the likely harm that we will see from the big ugly Bill. That Bill is more focused on hate than support against our most vulnerable communities and it certainly calls to question for us what do we want our Bill, our Budget, to represent.

I think at this moment in time, this Budget Bill represents for me a work in progress and a work in good faith.

It gives us some time, I'm heartened, to assess the decisions and the impacts that our Budget will have, to assess and understand the likely devastating impacts that this Budget will have on, particularly, our most vulnerable community members and specifically, our undocumented community members. I do want to just share some of the push-pull that exists in this Budget.

While we have had an opportunity to continue to double down, as the Legislature, on our commitment to child care, for instance, with an additional 12,000 slots by '26 and '27, we have still not provided an opportunity to consider the total cost of care and to be able to have reimbursement rates for our child care providers that rises to the level that they deserve, so that they can also have a thriving life.

There's tension in that. We've taken unprecedented steps in recognizing the need to address the fact that our CDCR Budget is the largest it has ever been, at $14.6 billion right now, in recent years. But also, in our system, has created incredible harm, particularly for women who are living in our correctional facilities.

This Budget does have some light because we made a commitment to shutter one prison. We've made a commitment to focus on the incredible violations of our women in our carceral system by providing additional health care, teeth, to our Office of Inspector General, to really look at the deep complaints that have been coming. Those things are there too.

We've thought about the need to be able to lift up our Bay Area Transit System that has still not recovered from the Pandemic and the downgrade in people returning to work and using our transit.

And certainly, there has been progress and a commitment to continue to preserve our TK-12 system, doubling down our CSUs, our community colleges, when we had difficult choices to make in supporting those. I spend my time mostly, in this budget cycle, looking at the pieces related to health and human services. And I want to be very clear.

This Budget, in my estimation, started in a really bad place and moved to a somewhat better place.

But it still does not do what we needed to do, which is fully recognize that our people who are undocumented, who are immigrants, who contribute every single day to our communities with their art, life, and love and work, are going to be disenfranchised by creating a two-tier system with our premium cares.

Now, what this Budget does do is give us time. It gives us time to consider the full ramifications of these decisions, by delaying and deferring some of these potential cuts. And I want us to make best use of that time.

I want us in our three-party agreement, which we are starting to head on the road to with our Governor, recognize that we are on the precipice of something that is very violent.

In fact, this morning, the Federal Administration has announced that They've just released personal data for the Department of Homeland Security of immigrants enrolled in Medicaid and Medi-Cal, as a part of that. We have a lot of work to do.

I'm committed to continuing that work to do and also committed to making sure that we're recognizing that we cannot put forward an anti-immigrant, anti-children, anti-justice budget that aligns with the Federal Government because we are California and we know better, and I know that we can do better.

With that, and with great reservation, I will be supporting this Bill. But I align the comments of my colleagues, particularly from Los Angeles, who spoke out so eloquently about why we need to take a better look. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bonta. Assemblymember Schiavo, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I rise to especially highlight one of the really important pieces that are included in this Budget. I know there's a lot of turmoil for all of us around this budget. It's not perfect. It's a difficult, difficult year, and I am really proud of the work that we did.

As someone on the Budget Health Subcommitee, we showed up to hearing after hearing after hearing and pushed for us to make a better budget and protect seniors and disabled folks, people who struggle the most in our healthcare system and need the most care, need to be protected.

And I am proud of the work that we've done to do that, and I know there's a lot of work that we need to continue to do, to ensure that everyone is protected.

One of the pieces that I personally worked really hard to fight for, and I'm grateful to the Budget Chair for his leadership on this issue, is the Victim of Crimes Act funding. This is something that was cut and threatened by the Federal Government.

It's something that last year, we had the foresight to understand that we needed to fund, and I'm very happy that we have $100 million again in the Budget this year to make sure that when there is a victim of crime, that the call gets answered, that there's someone to pick them up, that there's a safe haven and a shelter for people to go to.

We know that, you know, the people who are calling in need of help at that moment, they need it when they need it and we cannot have an empty line or a van that doesn't show up.

And so, I am incredibly grateful that that is included in this Bill, that we are showing up for victims of crime and making sure that California does not turn their backs when people need us the most. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Schiavo. Assemblymember Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and Members. I just rise just to simply say this is not a perfect Budget. I just want that to sink in for a moment. Since I've been on this green carpet for 11 years, I have not voted for a perfect budget.

And the people on this green carpet, for 11 years, there has not been a perfect Assembly Member. There has not been a perfect church that I have ever attended. There has not been a perfect Christian that I have ever walked and met. There's never been a perfect pastor that I ever seen ever in my life.

We are all striving for perfection, but I've never seen a perfect person, and if so, that person would be a God. I think we're all striving for perfection. So, let's get it out of our heads that we, you know, that we are voting on a perfect bill. We're working for perfection, right?

And so, we have an opportunity to do everything that we can to work for perfection. And so, when we walk out of this place, we will hope that we have an opportunity that we can come back here and work the best job that we can possibly do, to get it better.

We have an opportunity through budget trailer bills to get that much closer to helping the people that we were charged to working and make their lives better.

And so, we have another opportunity, new Members. Through budget trailer language, we will have an opportunity to have an opportunity to get to work with our budget chairs and sub chairs, to have conversations, to caucus, and to work with budget trailer language to help get it better.

And so, those Members who have reservations, let's continue to have those kinds of conversations and we take those kinds of conversations and everything that you said. I'm sure our budget chairs and sub chairs have taken all those things in consideration. But this Budget right now, again, look at what was proposed previously.

A lot of things were penciled out and we pushed back.

And so, I want to thank the, again, the staff for working diligently, working extreme hours, in order to get us to a place that we can hit the green button and also get us to a place where we can walk out of here and feel—and hold our head up.

This Budget, previous, had heartburn for myself, especially around in-home services, IHS services. A lot of my district individuals have people coming into home care providing it services.

I have people in my family depend on home care services, who would have had a hard time trying to make ends meet, would have had a hard time trying to find money putting together, trying to hire someone to come in while they're at work and trying to find someone to cook and clean while they're at work and having someone they trust to make sure their mother and fathers and those who have disabilities taking care of their children.

So, those kinds of services are important for families. And also, looking at—I'm just trying to go through this real quickly—looking at, you know, $52 million, $52 million for food bank programs. My staff right now is preparing boxes for people who are scared to go into the grocery store. I want that to sink in for a minute.

We're living in a time right now where people are afraid to go to the grocery stores because they are afraid to walk to the grocery store because of the color of their skin.

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Okay. Afraid to go to the grocery store because of the color of their skin, and so, my staff right now are preparing boxes so they can be delivered to those families, so they will have food to eat. And we need those kinds of resources that makes those kinds of differences.

Making sure that we have $100 million again, for victims of violent crime. We talked about on this floor, you know, domestic violence, human trafficking, and things of that nature. In this Budget, the staff and the budget chairs have done a yeoman's job. And again, I respectfully ask for an "Aye" vote.

It's not a perfect budget, but it's a good budget. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gipson. Assemblymember Dixon, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I get around here. In listening to all these important comments from colleagues on both sides of the aisle, all struggling with a budget that may reflect the values of Californians, all Californians, I totally respect that. That values and budget principles are two different things.

The number one principle of putting a budget together, whether it's a household budget, whether it's a budget for your small business, or for a large corporation, or for a local government. As a former City Council Member, we dealt with budgets all the time. We couldn't do deficit spending.

You look at the revenues, you project the revenues, you evaluate those revenues throughout the year, and if the revenues are not coming in, you pull back and you limit your spending. Businesses do this every day. If the economy looks shaky, you stop hiring. You don't fill open positions. You let attrition take, take place.

The California Legislature has a responsibility to every single California citizen, who pay taxes of hard-earned money from their jobs, to be responsible—we must be responsible with spending their money. The most glaring opportunity I see in this Budget, and I appreciate the hard work because there are so many needs. The fourth—the Governor talks—we are the fourth largest economy in the world and we're struggling to take care of in-home services and health care needs of our people.

Who are we? What do we do with all this money? The $300 billion and we can't meet these needs. I mean that's a question for another day.

But I'll just say, for a priority, looking to take $1 billion and put it into a high-speed rail, without even suggesting maybe there's a better alternative. Maybe we do need in the long term—it's taken 20 years—20 more years to fulfill it.

I appreciate the work that's done and the jobs that are created in the Central Valley, but maybe bring in a public private partnership, turn this over to Brightline or some other train company that's—high speed rail company—that's doing this in Florida, doing this to Las Vegas.

There are solutions to the high-speed rail, but the highest principle, the priority should be to solve these budget problems. We have a deficit, and we borrow from a rainy day fund. That's not good budgeting. So, the principles of being fiscal managers and doing the right thing for our taxpayers. The money is there, ladies and gentlemen.

The money is in that $300 billion budget. But let's be smart about how we allocate it, and I think the first thing is to get rid of the high-speed rail and put it into a private entity and let them solve it. We need wildfire management. We're not going to go through another tragedy again. That's ridiculous.

And the Prop 36, maybe there's $200 million, but I think it needs $400 million to divvy up amongst all the counties. Let's be practical. We can't be all things to all people, but we can be responsible to the critical issues that make California a great state. But we can't be all things to all people. Nobody can.

Just as Assemblymember Gipson just said, we can't be perfect, which means we can't do everything to your families, to your children. Do you say you could have everything you want? No. We have to be disciplined financially, respect the taxpayers who've contributed this money. Let's do it the right way and make tough decisions, not on the backs of the people who need in home services or on wildfire management or public safety.

Let's do the right thing and slash a budget. Take out that billion dollars for high-speed rail and other areas, cap-and-trade, there's a lot of money there. Let's make the tough decisions.

And frankly, I do not want to rush through this discussion and just pass this budget and expect trailer bills to fill all the gaps, and then that happens so quickly we don't even look at all those line items. If we have to stay here till Sunday, Father's Day.

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I'm willing to stay and get this done right. We can't just push this off and think, oh, we'll worry about this in trailer bills. I'm willing to stay and let's get this done right and—but in the meantime, I will be voting "No." Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Dixon. Assemblymember Bryan, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and colleagues. I have heard some pretty outrageous things on this floor, but I'm grateful to have finally heard the truth from our colleague from Orange County who suggested we take the high-speed rail money and give it to a private company, perhaps one of Elon's companies.

Instead of having our skilled and trained Californians build infrastructure, let's have more private enterprise use our public dollars. Let's be real about why this Budget is difficult. The President of the United States said, last week, he wanted to withhold California tax dollars from California.

As the Governor has stated, we pay over $80 billion in federal taxes that we don't get back. What's even more inflammatory is he's using California tax dollars to terrorize the people of Los Angeles right now—$134 million on the National Guard to patrol our streets like some sort of war zone.

By the way, that $134 million for my colleagues who care is 7.3 million hours of in-home supportive services. It's the entire year of utility bills for 65,000 struggling Californians. It's giving 11,000 Californians $1,000 a month for a whole year. It's paying for the childcare for of 8,000 children.

It's paying a year's worth of tuition for every single freshman at UCLA. The reason we are doing the hard work to try to balance this Budget is because the Federal Government is not looking out for California. We are looking out for California.

So, on behalf of everybody on this side of the aisle, I would like to ask my colleagues over there to respectfully sit down with the hypocrisy. I will be voting for this budget.

We still have work to do, but I'm grateful to the Budget Chair and the team for to continued conversations and for letting everybody have a seat at the table.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bryan. Assemblymember Davies, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I rise in respectful opposition to this budget Bill. On the outset, I want to acknowledge the very tough circumstances our budget leadership is under. I know tough choices have to be made and every wish list cannot be granted.

However, years of fiscal mismanagement have finally caught up to this building and it is everyday Californians who are paying the consequences, literally. The Budget, once again, assumes for the gas tax to increase automatically on July 1st, by an estimated 1.6 cents per gallon.

Despite bipartisan efforts to pause the gas tax, the Budget does not give any relief for drivers, especially during busy summer travel months. This is unacceptable. Temporarily suspending the gas tax or suspending the fuel standards also going into effect soon would go a long way to help those who cannot choose between gas and milk on the table.

Furthermore, while I applaud the Budget Chair for his pushback on the Governor's attempt to ignore the will of the voters as it relates to Prop 36, this Budget still does not properly fund this initiative. I understand the Assembly leadership has framed their Budget as compassionate and responsible.

I deplore my colleagues to use the same theme for Prop 36. Fact, we put in funding for behavioral health programs, which is great, but we have actually cut existing funding for probation and not provided them with any additional funding for implementing Prop 36.

Instead of providing safety nets for people going through new treatment programs, these cuts will let them free fall. Our probation officers are a necessity. They are crucial to make sure that we can make sure this program works. Some of the things our probation officers do is they develop individual programs.

There are some that maybe don't need to be in treatment overnight, that have a job to go to work and go and take classes, but without them looking at each individual, they may just put them all together where they're going to be off the street, not being able to go to work, and put basically in overnight treatment centers.

They also help find jobs and give them resources. They help them find housing. This is why it's so important that we have our probation officers and that we fund them. Compassion is providing treatment, responsible, providing supervision and accountability. Lastly, on this matter, we allocate an additional $15 million for public defenders.

Again, not a bad thing, except you only funded one side of the equation. Nowhere in this funding is any financial assistance for district attorneys' offices to help with increased caseloads. Justice is supposed to have a blind eye, however, when the scales tip towards one side, that's not justice, that's bias.

I just ask that we consider future public safety trailer bills, these funding imbalances be corrected. Again, I know what kind of constraints our budget leaders are under, but until we pass a budget that will actually give relief to Californians and properly keep our communities safe, I must urge a "No" vote.

And as my colleague was saying, you know we all have plans this weekend, we're trying to catch flights, but you know what? We owe Californians better. We need to stay here until we can all vote "Yes" on this budget. No, it's not perfect. And we voted before, but you know what?

Californians don't care about what our plans are. They care about being able to afford to put food on the table, gas in the tank. We owe this to them. We can do better. We need to be better.

And I will give my—honest thing is I will sit here, and I will stay here until the end, and make sure that we do what's right.

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That would be great for Californians to see us actually fight and actually say, okay, we'll pass it, it's, you know, it's not perfect. We owe them so much more.

And I'm willing to take that time and show them that they put the right people here to do the job. The job to make sure that they can be proud to say, "I voted for you."

Thank you, Assemblymember Davies. Assemblymember Tangipa, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I'll keep this brief, too. A budget, as I've always stated, is often a reflection of our priorities, and I rise with great concern that we've heard more speeches given today for illegal immigrants and fighting for illegal immigrants when our California citizens right now are suffering.

And I don't say that in a sense where us on the Republican caucus side are anti-immigrant at all. I don't think we can be. We're a minority-majority led caucus. We have more minorities than we do anything else.

I say that as an individual who went through the immigration process and fought for my mother to have legal residency here in California.

But it's concerning that we hear a "no" because we're not doing enough for more illegal immigrant services when 20% of Californians today cannot afford their utility rates, when a family of three that is paying almost $500 a month for their health insurance—we haven't done enough for them to lower theirs.

And yet, we're arguing whether it should be $100 for illegal immigrants to pay, so that way they can stay on Medi-Cal, to $30.

I think Californians right now are begging us, begging us to solve their issues first, before we look and expand to the rest of the world, the ones who have grown up in the most impoverished conditions that you could possibly imagine.

They're asking us to be there for them first before looking and opening the door and expanding everywhere else. We have an infinite number of problems in this world, but a finite amount of resources and the people that we have to take care of when Californians are suffering the most. I want to help everybody.

I want to serve everyone. I want to feed everybody. I benefited myself from the social safety net, but we have to embolden the services for Californians, prior to giving them to anybody else because hospitals are shutting down right on the outskirts of my districts.

When I think about Madera community, that we've now somehow opened back up, but we haven't solved the issues of insurance, of utilities, of reimbursement rates, that we're trying to do so much and care for so many that we are suffering for our own citizens.

And again, and I ask us all to work together, one way or the other, to say, let us prioritize Californians. Let us choose and make sure that they can afford all of their utility rates before going the next step.

Let us make sure that our money is managed properly so that families like mine, so I don't have to receive a text from my brother saying, "Hey, I don't need you to send me more money this month because we were able to qualify again for food stamps."

My family's falling into that position again after I worked hard to pull them out of that so that way they could become homeowners, because a lot of Californians feel that way.

When the poverty line has hit $100,000 or more in a lot of our areas, can't we say that there's a problem here in California and maybe the problem is coming out of the Governor's Office and right here in this legislative body that doesn't prioritize taking care of the needs of Californians first, lowering those costs, prior to expanding to the rest of the world.

So, simply from a number standpoint, I ask for your "No" vote on this. Would love to work together with everybody and anybody. I truly respect a lot of the work, the Chair and everybody else, especially in the differences in values that we have.

We've got to focus on a lot of the Californians that are struggling to eat groceries, pay rent, and just get by, every day.

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This does not help them. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Tangipa. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Gabriel, do you wish to close?

Yes, thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank all of the colleagues from across the state who rose to share thoughts about this Budget. I think that the conversation today maybe illustrated for many of you, who are not on the Budget Committee, the heaviness and the weight of this budget exercise.

The, as I described in my opening comments, the agonizing and often impossible choices that we were confronted with. And it is a difficult moment. It is a difficult moment for our state, a difficult moment for our country. And I do want to say to my Republican colleagues, I appreciate the comments and support of our safety net.

I'm glad we have alignment there on IHSS and Medi-Cal and protecting our most vulnerable. And I say this with the deepest sincerity, the most important thing that we can all do is to call our federal representatives in Washington.

If you truly want to preserve our safety net, if you truly want to preserve our rural hospitals, if you truly want to preserve IHSS and Developmental Services and all the things you spoke about today, you should call David Valadao and Young Kim and Ken Calvert and ask them to push back on what is happening in Washington.

There is an intentional effort to defund our safety net. There's an intentional effort to defund California. There's an intentional effort to withhold the taxpayer dollars that your constituents are paying. We're simply asking for the money that California taxpayers paid to Washington to come back and serve our communities, red communities, blue communities, rural communities, urban communities.

So, I hope that we can work together to send that message to our elected leaders in Washington, D.C. and this is a moment for all of you to live your values, to stand up for what you have just spoken and said is important to you.

For those who have expressed concerns on all parts of this Budget, I will say, I get it. These were tough, tough, tough choices.

And I want to particularly thank our Budget Sub Chairs who grappled with this, who I know were kept awake at night by the moral dimensions of these choices, and particularly, to our Sub Chairs from San Luis Obispo and Moreno Valley, who, as you heard, met with Californians who came in in wheelchairs and on ventilators, and at risk of homelessness and suffering from domestic violence, and suffering with all kinds of physical and mental and emotional challenges.

And I have to associate myself with, I thought, the exceptional comments of our Budget Sub One Chair, our colleague from San Luis Obispo.

I think if you want to know where the Legislature's values are, if you want to know where the Assembly's values are, compare and contrast the Governor's May Revise to the Budget that we offer for today. It is rooted in compassion. It is rooted in protecting our safety net. It is rooted in protecting our most vulnerable.

It is rooted in investing in housing and childcare and climate and wildfire prevention and public safety and the values that we all speak about. And so, this is not a perfect budget. I don't believe that anyone could craft a perfect budget.

And I don't believe, especially in the challenges that we face, discovering in May, that we face a $12 billion deficit. But I'm really proud of the work that our Budget Committee has done. I'm really proud of the work that our Sub Chairs have done to grapple with this in a serious and responsible way.

To say that we're going to look at this with compassion, but also with a lens towards fiscal responsibility. We know the conversation is not over. We know we have more conversations ahead with the Administration and our partners in the Senate.

But I just want to say thank you and express gratitude to the Members who dived in, who grappled with these heavy choices, and who chose to lead with compassion and fiscal responsibility. And with that, I would respectfully request an "Aye" vote on SB 101.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gabriel, and thank you all Members for your very thoughtful comments this morning. And before we move to a floor vote, this Chair also wishes to thank the very hard-working staff and the many on both sides of the aisle to get us to this point today. And with that, Clerk will open the roll.

All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. "Ayes," 57. "Noes," 19. The measure passes without objection, immediate transmittal to the Senate. Moving to announcements, session schedules as follows.

Saturday, June 14th no Floor Session no Check in Session Sunday, June 15th no Floor Session no Check in session Monday, June 16th Floor Session at 1:00pm Seeing and Hearing no further business, I'm ready to entertain a motion to adjourn. Majority Leader Aguiar Curry moves and Assemblymember Hadwick Seconds. This House stands adjourned until Monday, June 16th. At 1pm Quorum call is lifted. We are adjourned. Happy Father's Day.