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 California's budget deficit has jumped to $16 billion, forcing Gov. Jerry Brown to call for even deeper cuts in state spending when he releases his revised budget plan on Monday. 
 
 Brown revealed the dramatically higher deficit in a Web video posted on YouTube on Saturday. Lower than projected tax receipts along with the loss of proposed spending cuts already rejected by the courts and the federal government have increased the gap, the governor said. 
 
 Brown's January budget had projected a $9.2 billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1. 
 
 "This means that we will have to go much further and make cuts far greater than I asked for at the beginning of the year," Brown said in the video. 
 
 Administration officials declined to provide specific details on how they arrived at the new estimate or what would be included in the deeper cuts. The video was released by Brown's campaign team for his November ballot measure to increase the income tax on high earners and the sales tax on everyone. 
 
 Brown concluded his campaign statement with a call for Californians to join him in working to pass the measure, which the administration estimates would bring in $9 billion in additional tax revenue. He warned that if the measure fails, it would result in "severe damage" to public safety and schools. 
 
 Risky assumptions 
 
 The new deficit numbers are a stinging blow to the governor's oft-repeated promise to turn around California's troubled finances. 
 
 Since passing the budget last June, Brown and Democratic legislative leaders have touted their work, saying they had slashed the $26 billion deficit left by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by nearly two-thirds. However, that budget plan relied on a number of risky assumptions, including a projection that tax revenue would grow by an additional $4 billion. 
 
 Most of that money never materialized, and federal officials and the courts have blocked proposed cuts to the In-Home Supportive Services program for the elderly, blind and disabled, along with rejecting increases in co-pays for hospital and emergency room visits for people on Medi-Cal. 
 
 In addition, lawmakers have turned down about $1.5 billion in proposed cuts for welfare and child care services, along with reductions in the Cal Grants program that provides financial aid to college students. 
 
 June 15 deadline 
 
 Lawmakers must pass a balanced budget by the June 15 deadline, less than five weeks away. But they are focusing much of their attention on the June 5 primary election. 
 
 Senate Republican leader Bob Huff of Diamond Bar (Los Angeles County) said he does not expect Democrats to take action on the budget before the primary and, given that the spending plan can pass with a simple majority vote by Democrats, he said the plan will probably have more unrealistic assumptions. 
 
 'Phony budget' 
 
 "My guess is it's another phony budget," he said. Huff said lawmakers should consider potential sources of savings, like outsourcing nonclassroom school employees, before looking to tax increases, which Republicans have staunchly opposed. He also noted that had lawmakers made Brown's proposed cuts earlier in the year, the deficit problem would be smaller. 
 
 But state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, defended Democrats' decision to delay making cuts. 
 
 "We all hoped for better revenue numbers," he said. "But on that score, for people most in need, if they lose some of their bare subsistence, at least they will have been able to provide for themselves and their families for a few more months." 
 
 Although lawmakers will have to make more spending reductions, Steinberg said, they will not happen in areas that could lead to homelessness or threaten the lives of the sick. He specifically noted CalWORKS, the state's welfare to work program, as an area he would defend.
– California Gov. Jerry Brown broke the bad news yesterday by YouTube: His state is facing a $16 billion deficit, not the $9.2 billion shortfall he had projected in January, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Brown blamed the budget gap on lower-than-expected tax receipts and the loss of spending cuts, which were blocked by court order and federal officials to protect the needy. Now, Brown says, the public had better support his ballot measure in November to boost taxes and raise $9 billion. A balanced budget is required by June 15, but the state Senate's Republican leader predicts that "another phony budget" will be passed by a simple majority of Democrats. Advocates for those who use health and human services, however, are predicting harsh cuts when Brown reveals his proposed budget tomorrow: "The cuts are expected to be big, bad and brutal for California families," says one. A state senator calls the new deficit "as bad as our worst fears have been. The options get fewer and fewer."