'This is the best option just in case we have a stalemate with us and the governor,' said Rep. Leo Biasiucci, the Republican House Majority Leader.
A Chandler lawmaker who scuttled her Republican peers' plans to pass a budget last week and pledged to vote"no" again without major spending cuts instead helped approve the GOP plan on Monday on a party-line vote.
The Chandler Republican texted later that her change of mind was because of a"really good cup of espresso" before the vote, but later explained she meant"no comment." Republicans, including Speaker Pro-Tempore Travis Grantham, R-Gilbert, said passing this sort of baseline spending plan, then negotiating how to use the surplus funds, is the optimal budget process. He acknowledged he voted against the"exact same baseline last year," but said this year it was the"right thing to do."
House Speaker Ben Toma, R-Glendale, met with Harris for about a half-hour the day after that vote, but another vote wasn't taken, leaving the budget in limbo. until the state held a new election. She promptly filed a number of bills, however, indicating that was at least prepared to vote on her own ideas, and she voted for some bills in committee hearings.Toma didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about what might have changed Harris' mind.
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