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House districts where Republican lawmakers have supported the president’s initial budget plan.

Residents in those districts will hear how the Trump budget plan threatens to cut Medicaid for “everyday people,” and how substantial reductions could threaten to shutter rural hospitals that are already struggling to make ends meet.

The estimates will serve as the bedrock of a revised state budget plan the governor presents to the Democratic-led legislature next month.

The whiplash underscores the challenge before lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom this spring as they attempt to develop a state budget plan for the year ahead that funds schools, healthcare, roadways and other essential services.

While conservatives hail the Republicans’ budget plan as the “biggest tax cut in history” and say that President Donald Trump’s tax plan is necessary tax relief, Trump and his allies are working to execute an enormous transfer of wealth from working Americans to the wealthiest.