California’s irresponsible, bloated government is making yet another round of budget cuts that won’t cover the state’s budget deficit.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and California’s Democratic supermajority in the legislature have cut into the state’s budget deficit by another $17.3 billion between agreed-upon cuts and delays. That includes $3.6 billion in true budget cuts, with the state cutting two more climate programs (after already making climate cuts last year to the tune of $3 billion) along with housing programs, welfare, and government personnel funds.

Meanwhile, the state is also kicking the can down the road with delays to housing funds for homeless and mentally ill people, transit projects, and programs for building and improving kindergarten facilities for schools.

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All of this, at best, doesn’t even cut into half of the state’s budget deficit. Newsom’s administration puts the projected deficit at $38 billion. The Legislative Analyst’s Office, which is nonpartisan, puts the number at $73 billion. So this is another round of cuts that barely make a dent alongside multiple delays that just mean the state will have to address this problem again later, along with the rest of the $21 billion to $56 billion that it hasn’t even touched yet.

Even now, Newsom boasts of his “responsible fiscal stewardship” when it is clear that he and the California Democratic Party are overseeing the financial decay of what should be the greatest state in the country. Newsom and California’s Democrats have put the Golden State in a hole from which they can’t help it climb because their desire to take taxpayers’ money to burn on their useless or redundant projects has taken priority over making the state affordable and livable for its residents.