Budget blow up: Hobbs blames ‘unserious’ Republicans who say she is throwing a ‘tantrum’

Arizona Lawmakers Fume After Hobbs Cuts off Budget Talks

Arizona legislators are fuming and accusing Governor Katie Hobbs of abruptly walking away from budget negotiations on Friday. The lawmakers claim that the governor is "distorting the facts while advancing a budget plan that would put Arizona taxpayers and students in jeopardy." On Friday, the Arizona Governor’s Office announced it was ending budget negotiations because...

Budget blow up: Hobbs blames ‘unserious’ Republicans who say she is throwing a ‘tantrum’

Photo illustration by Jim Small. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona MirrorThe annual battle over Arizona’s budget is getting nasty, after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs walked away from negotiations because she said GOP lawmakers were “unserious,” while the Republicans who control the legislature responded by accusing her of throwing a “temper tantrum.”  Hobbs announced Friday that she was calling off all state budget negotiations until Republ…

Read Hobbs, Sundareshan, and De Los Santos Say MAGA Republicans Betray Families in Budget Negotiation/Prop 123 Impasse now from Blog for Arizona for Politics from a Liberal Viewpoint

Governor Katie Hobbs is furious that Arizona Legislative MAGA Republicans are stubbornly clinging to unpopular positions like: Hobbs authorized her Communications Director, Christian Slater, to release the below statement: “Legislative Republicans are holding teachers, students, and parents hostage to their partisan agenda by refusing to discuss Prop 123 proposals in budget negotiations. Public education funding ...