I have no idea about the history of California's mental-illness funding, so I have no idea if your comment is accurate and Reagan is actually the bad guy (although I suspect it's more complicated).

However, California has run massive surpluses lately: The average ending balance from 2006 through the 2019-20 fiscal year was a surplus of about $2.8 billion; for 2020 through 2022-23 it was more than $37.5 billion.

So why doesn't Newsom, or his predecessors, re-establish the funding? Clearly it isn't a priority to them either.

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/06/13/californias-b...