They did not slash spending. At most the rate of increase slowed down for a year or so before continuing to rise at an even faster rate.
https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/history/state-budgets/
That’s not a great measure. The state was still growing very fast. The better metric would be state expenditure as a fraction of state gdp
That’s not a great measure. The state was still growing very fast. The better metric would be state expenditure as a fraction of state gdp