From Hanke Plante at CBS 5:
While Schwarzenegger will reveal his specific budget cut proposals on Monday, earlier this year he hinted that people on welfare could be in the bullseye. Welfare recipients are one of the only groups who are not protected by existing entitlements in the state budget.
But targetting the poor could set-up a summer-long budget battle under the Captiol Dome with Democrats.
“There’s a federally funded cost of living increase for those who are receiving public assistance and the governor’ss proposal is to take those dollars to balance our budget rather than to pass it on to those who are already living on very very little,” said Assemblyman Mark Leno, the San Francisco Democrat who chairs the Appropriations Committee.
It is looking like it will be a long summer.
