Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) refused Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s request for roughly $2 billion to keep California’s largest city from going off the fiscal cliff.
As Los Angeles faces a nearly $1-billion budget hole, Bass pressed Newsom last month to include the funding, including $638 million for “protecting city services under budgetary strain,” in his 2025-26 budget proposal.
But Newsom declined to grant aid, calling Bass’s request “a nonstarter,” and citing California’s staggering $12 billion deficit as a reason for withholding additional funding from Los Angeles…