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Arizona’s GOP budget: Tax breaks for data centers and Roth IRAs, cuts for the people who need food
Arizonans’ budgets are strained with sky-high gas and grocery prices, paired with cuts to safety net programs, but the legislators who created the GOP’s budget proposal for the state brushed off concerns that most working families are struggling to pay their bills…

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Hobbs vetoes ‘unbalanced and reckless’ Republican budget, calls for negotiations to resume
Arizona’s Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a Republican budget plan after it passed both chambers of the state legislature on party line votes, saying it would bring “chaos and dysfunction” to the Grand Canyon State…

A Cuban immigrant in Arizona is one of 65,000 people the Trump administration is fining $1.8 million as a cudgel to force them to self-deport. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
‘I can’t even sleep’: Arizona immigrant hit with $1.8M fine for staying in US
Sanchez was already nervous about receiving a letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but nothing could prepare him for seeing the dollar amount the government said he owed them: $1,820,252.00
The Cuban landscaper, who came to the United States with his family 20 years ago, was floored…
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