{"id":370377,"date":"2026-06-22T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370377\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:24:09","slug":"san-jose-adopts-budget-includes-1-billion-in-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/370377\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose adopts budget, includes $1 billion in cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose City Council last week put the final seal of approval on the $5.5 billion dollar budget that will see the city through the upcoming fiscal year beginning July 1.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s third-largest city is attempting to face down a $50 million deficit, a process that forced city leaders to make painful cuts.<\/p>\n<p>But, city leaders said they are relieved the budget isn&#8217;t any worse. They point to continued spending that has preserved a range of budget priorities. These include immigrant defense services, access to a popular library archive, and city programs supporting youth and families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-joses-budget-lands-with-wins-losses-work-to-do\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Jose Spotlight reports <\/a>the budget has also received pushback from some who said it has shortchanged several public safety initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>While the spending plan increases the budget for San Jose&#8217;s police and fire departments \u2014 even as the city&#8217;s overall budget shrank from last year&#8217;s by a billion dollars\u2014 critics argue the cuts will undermine crime and fire prevention efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose City Council last week put the final seal of approval on the $5.5 billion dollar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-370377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}