In one declaration, Mary Halterman, an assistant program budget manager at the California Department of Finance, wrote that federal funding “typically comprises about a third” of the state’s budget. In fiscal 2024-25, the state’s $500-billion budget anticipates $168 billion in federal funds, not including funding for the state’s public college and university system.
The largest chunk, some $107.5 billion, is for payments under Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, which provides healthcare to nearly 15 million low-income Californians, or more than a third of the state’s population, Halterman wrote.
That includes about 5 million children — more than half of the kids in the state.
That's a whole lot of money from the federal government.
