INFURIATING: California Spending $9.5 BILLION On Free Healthcare For Illegal Aliens

This is completely outrageous…

Gavin Newsom’s California government has allocated a staggering $9.5 billion of their budget this year to giving illegal immigrants healthcare coverage under the Medi-Cal program.

$9.5 billion.

Just, wow.

Take a look for yourself:

JUST IN: Gavin Newsom will be spending a whopping $9.5 BILLION this year to give free healthcare to illegal aliens.

I'm infuriated, and I don't even live in California.

The federal government should freeze all funding for California until they comply with federal immigration… pic.twitter.com/tZwmIiKoqc

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 15, 2025

BREAKING: California is spending $9.5 BILLION on healthcare for illegal immigrants—while facing a $30 BILLION deficit. pic.twitter.com/8MfOVroTyr

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2025

BREAKING – A California Department of Finance report has revealed that CA taxpayers have been spending $9.5 billion annually to provide free healthcare to illegals.

Billions for illegals, nothing for Americans.

You aren’t angry enough.

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 15, 2025

Many Californians affected by the wildfires and Newsom’s mishandling of the disaster are still without homes.

And yet, we’re spending billions to make sure illegal aliens have healthcare?

Where are the priorities?

👀🚨JUST IN: CA Governor Gavin Newsom to spend $9.5 BILLION just this year on healthcare for illegals.

All while some California residents are still homeless from the fires.

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 16, 2025

Keep in mind also that this is all coming from the state’s ‘rainy day fund.’

California already has a projected budget deficit of $30 billion…

🚨🇺🇸NEWSOM’S BIG BUDGET BLUNDER: NO MO’ MONEY, BIG MO’ PROBLEMS

California is spending more than it has, and with Trump back in office, Newsom is sweating.

His solution?

Pull $7B from reserves while spending $9.5B on healthcare for undocumented residents—up from the $6B… https://t.co/vLRgGQl1dl pic.twitter.com/3bekRf5jlM

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 15, 2025

Elon Musk replied to the news, calling the move “unsustainable”:

Unsustainable https://t.co/tMWnvkw8Xs

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2025

Unsustainable is an understatement…

Here’s a clip of the a budget manager for California’s Department of Finance confirming the crazy figure:

Guadalupe Manriquez, California Department of Finance program budget manager, tells the state Assembly Budget Committee this past Monday that the state is “spending $9.5 BILLION total funds” to “cover UNDOCUMENTED INDIVIDUALS in Medi-Cal” in the current year.

Defund California. pic.twitter.com/JyoLCcT9E4

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 15, 2025

Keep in mind that this $9.5B is much, much more than the original $3 billion proposed to give illegal aliens health coverage (which is still insane.)

Gavin Newsom 2022: California will be the first state to offer universal healthcare to illegal immigrants. A small price to pay for $3 billion

Reality: The cost was almost 10 BILLION pic.twitter.com/2JycwMFzSR

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) February 15, 2025

Fox News covered the story:

A California budget official revealed this week that taxpayers in the Democrat-run state are paying billions of dollars more on healthcare for illegal immigrants than previously known.

Guadalupe Manriquez, the California Department of Finance program budget manager, told the state Assembly Budget Committee Monday the state is “spending $9.5 billion total funds” to “cover undocumented individuals in Medi-Cal” in the current year.

Manriquez explained that this is a “revised number based on the governor’s budget-updated estimates,” adding the earlier figure was from the earlier “budget act.”

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“Of the $9.5 billion, $8.4 billion is general fund,” she said.

Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio noted that the cost of healthcare for illegal immigrants could be enough to help solve some of the state’s budget woes and “avoid going into the rainy day fund,” The Center Square reported. He said the number originally floated was roughly $6 billion.

A new state law enacted at the start of 2024 ensures that “immigration status doesn’t matter” for those looking to apply for taxpayer-backed insurance, according to the state’s health department website.

The Center Square also reported:

California officials told legislators that the state is spending $9.5 billion on healthcare for illegal immigrants in the current 2024-2025 budget.

With the governor’s proposed budget including a $7 billion reserve withdrawal and deficits expected to soon rise to $30 billion, and federal funding likely to decrease, the state may face challenges in continuing to pay for this growing program.

During a budget hearing earlier this week, Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, asked California Department of Finance officials how much the state has allocated to undocumented immigrant healthcare in the current budget.

“In the current year, to cover undocumented individuals in Medi-Cal, we’re spending $9.5 billion total funds,” replied a CDOF official, who said $8.4 billion of that comes from the state’s general fund.

“So it’s not the $6 billion that people continue to talk about in the media,” replied DeMaio.

“That was a budget act number. This is a revised number based on the governor’s budget updated estimates,” continued the official.

“If we cut that, at least using your math, we’d have a $1 billion surplus, my friends, we wouldn’t have to go into the rainy day fund,” said DeMaio in response.