Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro announced on Monday the formation of a an ad hoc committee to investigate budget mismanagement by Governor Katie Hobbs.
The House Ad Hoc Committee on Executive Budget Mismanagement will launch immediately.
Montenegro, alongside Majority Leader Michael Carbone, Majority Whip Julie Willoughby, Speaker Pro Tempore Neal Carter, and members of the House Republican Majority, held a news conference aiming to expose what they say is “another financial crisis created by Governor Katie Hobbs.”
The Hobbs’ administration’s latest debacle involves the Department of Child Safety’s Congregate Care program, which is set to go bankrupt next week, leaving Arizona’s most vulnerable children at risk.
“This is not a simple oversight—it is gross financial mismanagement at the highest level,” said Speaker Montenegro. “Governor Hobbs has made a habit of overspending, ignoring reality, and then sounding the alarm only when disaster strikes. The difference here is that Arizona’s children will be the ones to suffer for her failures. That’s why I’m taking immediate action.”
Montenegro announced the creation of a House Ad Hoc Committee on Executive Budget Mismanagement to investigate the Hobbs administration’s repeated fiscal failures. The committee will examine how the Governor has consistently mismanaged the budget, ignored financial reality, and allowed critical services to reach the brink of collapse before taking action.
“This is a pattern. Congregate Care is set to go bankrupt next week. The Governor’s mismanaged Developmental Disabilities program will collapse by the end of April. Her administration failed to budget for formula growth in AHCCCS for two years straight—racking up hundreds of millions in unaccounted costs. The list goes on,” Speaker Montenegro continued. “This is not leadership. This is incompetence.”
Montenegro has directed the Chairman of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee to have the committee meet to instruct the Hobbs administration to redirect existing funds under its control to prevent harm to children under DCS’ care. The Governor’s administration failed to spend wisely, and it is their responsibility to fix this situation—not the Legislature’s job to bail them out.
“The people of Arizona didn’t elect us to stand by while the Governor manufactures crisis after crisis,” Speaker Montenegro added. “House Republicans will ensure accountability and enforce responsible budgeting, but we expect the Governor to take ownership of her failures. That starts with making her staff available to the Legislature so we can fully understand the depth of this mismanagement and pursue the right solutions. Governor Hobbs may be comfortable with chaos, but we are not.”
Are my eyes deceiving me or is Katie Hobbs trying to look more and more like a male with every photo op?
Just look at this woke monster.
Getting out my bowl of popcorn!
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
This is what we get when we vote for a candidate who campaigned from home, rarely spoke or appeared in public and rarely granted actual interviews to the media. She wasn’t a candidate really. She was a mole running for office.
I have lived in this state for over 30 years, never have I seen the amount of fiscal mismanagement that this governor has brought to this state. We always had money. This is totally unacceptable !