Written by Chriss W. Street
Mar 8 |
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency “DOGE teams” that are charged with “carrying out spending cuts and modernization of federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity” will primarily be target California with 2 million federal jobs.
Governor Newson likes to hype that California with a gross domestic product of about $4 trillion has been rated by the International Monetary Fund as the equivalent of the 5th largest economy in the world since 2017.
The Golden State with 10.5% of U.S citizens and 12.5% of the American residents, has been receiving about 15% of all federal spending.
As a result, California has by far the largest number of federal related jobs with 253,600 direct federal workers, about the same number of people working in the state’s real estate businesses, physicians’ offices, or warehouses. But about 1.75 million Californians work indirectly for the feds as postal workers, active-duty military, contractors, and federal grantees.
Newsom presented his $492.881 billion proposed budget for 2025-2026 in January, claiming California’s economy had grown by 6.1% to $4.1 trillion. But key to continued growth is the projected $170.6 billion of California direct federal funding, up 87% from $97.2 billion five years ago.
California virtue signaled itself as the largest sanctuary state during the Biden administration, with at least 2 million new “undocumented workers.”
This helps explain why federal spending on California has spectacularly accelerated, because about 59% of households headed by illegal immigrants receive one or more major federal welfare programs.
Texas that also is on the Southern border had the second largest number of direct federal jobs at 220,200, followed by states around the U.S. Capitol including Virginia with 191,900, the District of Columbia with 191,200, and Maryland with 161,200. But most states have few federal jobs, including Delaware with 6,700, Vermont with 6,800, Wyoming with 8,200, New Hampshire with 9,100, and North Dakota with 9,300.
President Trump 47 campaigned on creating a “deportation force” to round up illegal aliens. The February report from U.S. Homeland Security for Trump’s first month in office found that illegal immigration had crashed by 98%. Furthermore, 20% of current illegal aliens now intend to self-deport.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan has promised “a historic deportation operation” that promises to round up, detain, and deport about one million illegal aliens per year.
California has been living-large on the massive U.S. growth of illegal aliens. That worked when Joe Biden was president and Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House.
But the other 49 U.S. states are now demanding California be forced lose their extra 5% more of all federal jobs than ratio of citizens. That means California is at risk to lose 60,000 direct and 600,000 indirect federal jobs.
The Mountain Top Times believes California has entered an existential financial crisis and we be publishing a series of reports on related issues.
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