Here’s the scam of the decade: California Governor Gavin Newsom’s budget has an eye-popping $222 billion Medicaid spending, including an expected $137.5 billion in federal funding. This is despite last year’s huge debate in Congress about whether Medicaid spending should grow 5% or 3% a year. Newsom prefers 15%!

For comparison, the entire budget of the state of Florida is only $117 billion.

For every 40 cents California spends on Medicaid, they get roughly 60 cents from taxpayers in other states.

We’re not sure what trick Gavin Newsom thinks he has up his sleeve to get away with this, but the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress should make a big issue of California’s non-stop looting of federal taxpayers via Medicaid.