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STATE BUDGET

GOP leaders offer Democrats more education funding to reach bipartisan budget deal

Compromise leads to 1st bipartisan budget since 2008

PHOENIX - State lawmakers adopted an $18 billion spending plan early Thursday, rebuffing efforts by some Republicans to tear apart the deal.

The vote came as Republican legislative leaders, unable to get votes from their own members, cut a deal with Democrats by offering millions more in funding for public education than the GOP and Republican Gov. Doug Ducey had proposed.

That ensured there would be enough Democrats to offset the Republicans who found the spending proposal too high to support.

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