PHOENIX — Arizona’s new Democratic governor on Friday rolled out a $17.1 billion state budget proposal that pours new cash into tax credits for low-income parents and takes aim at a housing crisis that has triggered a big increase in homelessness.
At the same time, the budget also targets two of her predecessor’s top priorities — a newly-enacted universal school voucher program and the state police’s border strike force.
Gov. Katie Hobbs’ elimination of the massive school voucher program expansion would free up the more than $144 million expected to go this school year to parents whose children are newly eligible for Empowerment Scholarship Account vouchers. The expansion was a major priority of Republican Doug Ducey when he was governor.
