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On this day, December 18, 2002, Gray Davis announced that California would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_18• 2002 – California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.