Balancing Act: Arizona's Bipartisan Budget Triumph Amid Revenue Shortfalls and Political Divides

Arizona recently passed this year's state budget. Policymakers delivered a balanced, bipartisan budget while navigating revenue shortfalls and a divided government. On this episode of Policy Pulse Arizona, we'll answer the most important questions that you may have about the state budget. Like, what happens if lawmakers don’t pass a budget by July 1? What’s up with the revenue shortfall we keep hearing about? What’s really responsible for declining state revenues? Is there a cost to bipartisanship?

 

Relevant CSI research: 

 

1. How to Solve Arizona's Budget Deficit
2. The 2024 Arizona Budget Then and Now
3. Growth & Change: How One Year of Universal Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Has (And Hasn’t) Altered Arizona’s K-12 Landscape
4. Accelerating Arizona’s New Tax Structure: Economic Impacts of Implementing the 2.50% Flat Tax in 2023