Gavin Newsom’s cynical budget ploy

This editorial page warned in April that local governments might play their usual games and try to “fire the firemen first” in an effort to stave off budget cuts made necessary by plunging revenues.
It turns out that Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided to play the game on their behalf.
Newsom’s May budget revision proposed $14 billion in cuts to schools and essential services with a promise that the cuts would go away if Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump would agree to a