When their debt issue hits maximum over-drive, and they come to mother-DC to beg off a no-interest loan in the 200-billion range...they will discover certain conditions will apply. Red states and their representatives will dictate that California admit it’s incompetence, along with a dozen-odd things which will destroy the Democratic ‘model’.
The bitter cynic in me suggests that California is using incoming Federal aid dollars for “wildfires” as a way to offset the outflow of Federal tax dollars that goes to the Gulf states for hurricane daneage recovery and repair.