claim: Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.”
evidence: A Facebook post lists metrics for the four most populous states including their budgets. It states that Texas and Florida have "balanced" budgets while California is "in debt $54 billion and New York is "in debt $6.1 billion." While this post didn’t comment on the party affiliations of the governors, similar posts point out that the governors of Florida and Texas are Republicans while the governors of New York and California are Democrats. [...] While Florida and Texas have passed balance budgets, they too are certain to face economic woes related to the pandemic. [...] The $6.1 billion figure for New York stems from projections late last year about a shortfall, and ignores that the state has since passed a balanced budget.