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Kern County faces $14 million budget gap as federal, state cost shifts pile up

Posted 2/20/26

Kern County is staring down a $14 million budget deficit for the coming fiscal year, driven by health care costs that keep climbing, federal policy changes pushing millions in new expenses onto local …

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