Labor groups, still reeling from the return-to-office order, will soon need to negotiate suspending salary increases to help reduce California’s deficit.

California would scale back state Medicaid coverage for immigrants without legal status, eliminate coverage for certain weight loss drugs and use money from a key climate program to help fund state fire response under a $322-billion budget proposal announced Wednesday by Gov.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his updated budget plan Wednesday, in which he revealed that California is facing a $12 billion deficit. He largely put the onus on President Donald Trump's tariffs,