{"id":378041,"date":"2026-06-28T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:30:16","slug":"california-leaders-agree-to-351-billion-budget-software-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378041\/","title":{"rendered":"California Leaders Agree to $351 Billion Budget, Software Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators have reached an agreement on a $351.7 billion state budget that will be bolstered in part by a newly proposed tax on digital software sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1 is Newsom\u2019s last as governor and comes as state finances are buoyed by an artificial intelligence boom fueled by home-state companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Governor Gavin Newsom and top Democratic legislators have reached an agreement on a $351.7 billion state budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46288,2080,7,9,8,10554,141554,13,15919,124505,3880,12417,24125],"class_list":["post-378041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-anthropic-pbc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-ipos","tag-politics","tag-sales-tax","tag-savings-accounts","tag-software","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378041","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=378041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}