Our 7th year, week 17
NOTE: This week, after Hobbs vetoed the budget submitted by the legislature, the House announced they would recess until June 1. It is expected that the Senate will do the same on Monday.
We too will recess our Reviews until after June 1 or before if something develops that is worth reviewing.
SPECIAL EDITION, FY2027 STATE BUDGET
Last week, the House approved their latest version of the FY2007 state budget. Early this week, the Senate did the same and sent the budget to Hobbs.
Within hours Hobbs vetoed the whole proposal and issued the following statement:
“This budget is unbalanced and reckless. With it, Arizona would default on our debt obligations, endanger vulnerable children, slash critical public safety funding, and pay for tax breaks to billionaires, data centers and special interests by kicking Arizonans off their healthcare and taking food off their tables. Arizonans cannot afford chaotic and dysfunctional Washington-style budgeting in our state government.”
In the May 9 edition of the Senate Republican Caucus Newsletter, Senator David Farnsworth stated the following:
“You’ve probably seen a lot of headlines this week claiming the Republican budget would somehow gut public safety, hurt child welfare, or abandon Arizona’s water future. That simply isn’t true.
The Republican budget proposal the legislature passed and the governor vetoed this week was a responsible, balanced, and focused plan that protects the services Arizonans actually depend on. It funds K-12 education, supports law enforcement, protects wildfire mitigation efforts, safeguards Colorado River funding, and exempts the Department of Child Safety from operating reductions. At the same time, it spends about $800 million less than Governor Hobbs’ proposal and provides $1.45 billion in historic tax relief for hardworking Arizona families, seniors, and small businesses”.
At AZPEOPLESLOBBYISTS, we have not been able to read every word of every budget-related bill. However, we have been checking out the official summaries of those bills and it appears that Hobbs’ characterization of the budget package is mostly bogus.
As usual, it is good advice for citizens to look at the text of bills and/or their official summaries before deciding who is providing accurate descriptions and who is misleading the public.
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