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Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ roughly $16 billion budget proposal includes around $1 billion in spending cuts, but that won’t be enough to resolve a massive deficit that legislative budget analysts estimate has grown to roughly $1.7 billion.And some of the cuts in Hobbs’ budget have virtually no chance to pass the Republican-controlled legislature, anyway.
Beyond curtailing the school voicher program, the governor wants state agencies to return unspent money, delay state construction projects and cut hundreds of millions already-approved transportation projects.
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has proposed requiring students to attend public school for 100 days before becoming eligible for the vouchers in a move designed to rein the voucher program’s skyrocketing costs and reduce the number of participants.
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs unveiled her plan for a smaller Fiscal Year 2025 budget Friday, the same day the state's Joint Legislative Budget Committee released its findings on the budget shortfall.
A Scottsdale state senator is moving once again to pass laws to lock up – or at least fine – people who get in the way of Arizonans on the