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California receives over one-third of its state budget from federal funds, with major categories including health and human services, education, and infrastructure
California’s enacted 2025–26 state budget incorporates almost $175 billion in federal funds that flow through the state budget—about 35.2 percent of the total plan—according to the California Budget &...
enacted was a large, complex mix of state and federal dollars, but the public reporting does not provide a neat, single table in the sources supplied that lists “federal dollars by major program” for ...
receives federal dollars through multiple channels and the annual total depends on which flows are counted; a common, broad measure of federal expenditures in California is roughly per year (statewide...
is a net fiscal “donor” to the federal government: its residents and businesses pay more in federal taxes than the state receives back in , a pattern driven by high incomes, population size, and the ....
California was a net fiscal “donor” to the federal government in 2022 — sending more in federal taxes than it received back in federal spending — a gap nonpartisan researchers put between about $83 bi...