White House: California On Its Own

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:43 PM

WASHINGTON -- California's budget crisis due to the U.S. recession is one that the state is going to have to solve on its own, the White House said Tuesday.

"It's obviously not an easy time for the state of California," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told a briefing when asked if the administration would provide emergency financing for the state.

"We'll continue to monitor the challenges that they have, but this budgetary problem unfortunately is one that they're going to have to solve," Gibbs said.

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