Newsom’s $349B budget projects a $2.9B deficit boosts education and braces for future shortfalls amid federal funding cuts.

California's non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office noted that state income tax revenues would likely decrease by hundreds of millions of dollars per year on an ongoing basis if the ultra-wealthy were to leave the state.

Following winter storms that lashed California with rain and snow in recent weeks, the state is completely free of drought for the first time in 25 years, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The last time California had no regions considered “abnormally dry” or in drought conditions was in December 2000.

Five states including California that are targeted by a funding freeze are suing the Trump administration, which alleges widespread fraud within the states' welfare systems.