Schwarzenegger Takes Knife to Health, Child-Welfare Services


Published On: July 30th, 2009

California health care and child-welfare services took a last-minute hit in the $84.5 billion state budget plan signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday. Raising the ire of Democrats, he used his veto power to slash nearly $500 million more from the final bill that had been agreed to by lawmakers, notes the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times.

The prolonged drive to close the state’s $24 billion budget gap has been a grueling process. “This has been a very tough budget, probably the toughest since I have been in office here in Sacramento,” Schwarzenegger said to the LA Times. “This budget is kind of like the good, the bad and the ugly.”

Democrats say that Schwartzenegger didn’t have the authority to make the extra cuts, but the governor’s camp told the LA Times they were proper and necessary. Among the largest added cuts made by the governor were:

  • $80 million from Child Welfare Services for hiring social workers who work with abused and neglected children
  • $52 million from public-health efforts for AIDS prevention and treatment
  • $50 million from Healthy Families, which provides health care to children in low-income families, which advocates say will result in 500,000 children losing health insurance
  • $50 million from developmental services geared toward families whose babies are at risk for or have developmental disabilities.

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