Brewer: GOP Budget Jeopardizes $2 Billion Stimulus Funding

From the Arizona Capitol Times:

Under the terms of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the state is slated to receive nearly $900 million in stimulus funds for K-12 and higher education, and more than $700 million for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. But state officials are awaiting word from the federal government on whether those funding sources would be threatened by provisions in the legislative budget plan.

Brewer on June 5 said she has not read the bills, but it is her understanding that provisions dealing with university funding could jeopardize the education stimulus money. "I haven't seen the bill, but we have seen that situation. We have also seen a similar situation in regard to the federal stimulus dollars for AHCCCS. So there's a lot of issues there that aren't workable. They're not possible to do," she said.

The governor has not signed the budget bills, and legislative leaders have not yet sent them to her desk.