SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday that plugs an unexpected budget gap to fund Medi-Cal through late June.
The low-income healthcare program serves more than a third of the state’s 39 million people, and its eligibility expansion to include undocumented immigrants has been controversial.
When state lawmakers passed the budget for this current fiscal year – which runs July 2024 through the end of June 2025 – they under-estimated the costs for Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid, which is funded with state and federal dollars…