Gov. Gavin Newsom said California’s budget is facing a $16 billion deficit that he blames on tariffs. He’s proposing to save $5 billion by pausing a Medi-Cal expansion to immigrants.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to charge monthly premiums for undocumented immigrants and stop adding new enrollees to the program as soon as January.

When Gov. Gavin Newsom released his preliminary $322 billion state budget plan in January, he projected a “modest surplus.” But many things have changed since then: A general economic slowdown in the U.