Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Jason Sisney

15. Jason Sisney

Even in the best of times, California budget negotiations are a heated affair, and the temperature is turned up significantly when the state faces a monster deficit as it did this year. But for Jason Sisney, the Assembly’s top budget advisor since 2018, it’s all just another day at the office. A veteran of the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the unflappable Sisney is intimately familiar with the vagaries of California’s budget and its maddening machinations. As such, he works seamlessly with the rest of the Capitol budget hierarchy from the governor’s office, DOF and the Senate. Sisney also writes the #CABudget newsletter on Substack, must-read info for budget wonks or anyone else who wants real-time info on what’s going on with the state budget process. He holds an undergraduate degree in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and, fittingly, worked at Fitch Ratings as a bond rating analyst for debt issued by states and other entities before going into the building in 2005.

Updated Aug.7, 2024