Newsom Seeks to Close $37.9 Billion Deficit by Cutting Spending and Using Reserves
Briefly

Mr. Newsom said his finance department, working with updated revenue figures, had determined that lawmakers would have to offset a deficit of $37.9 billion for the fiscal year that starts on July 1.
To accomplish that, the governor proposed covering nearly $19 billion of the gap with reserves, trimming nearly $12 billion from planned spending and delaying a little more than $7 billion in spending commitments into the next fiscal year.
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