Gov. Katie Hobbs says she won’t sign any more bills until Arizona’s Republican legislative leaders reveal their budget plan.The Democratic governor paused budget negotiations three weeks ago after she said that the Republicans who control the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate refused to negotiate on Proposition 123, a school funding measure that expired last year.In response, Republicans said that Hobbs’s proposed budget was unserious and of “throwing a tantrum.”GET THE MORNING HEADLINES. SUBSCRIBEAt the time, Hobbs said her office would resume negotiations if the GOP leaders publicly released their own budget plan. Weeks later, they haven’t done so, and Hobbs is increasing the pressure.“I know we can get big things done when we work together, but that isn’t possible when one side refuses to show us their plans,” Hobbs said in a Monday statement.Hobbs revealed her own budget plan in January, which Republicans said was “based on fantasy revenue.”Passing a budget by the June 30 deadline is the Arizona Legislature’s only statutory duty each year. Negotiations are always difficult since the budget requires approval from both Republican-led chambers of the legislature, as well as the Democratic governor, whose priorities often do not align.Last year, the budget fight led to numerous late-night sessions, partly because of Republican infighting, with the budget finally passed and signed on June 27.The dynamics of the negotiations this year are even more difficult because of cuts from the federal government that decrease available resources and election-year politics that are especially amplified because Hobbs is seeking reelection in November.In her statement, Hobbs said that Republican leaders were focused on tax cuts for billionaires and taking away food and medical assistance for families who need it, instead of producing a balanced budget.Senate President Warren Petersen placed the blame for the budget negotiation breakdown on Hobbs.“The Governor’s blanket veto threat is an unserious approach to governing and puts politics ahead of progress,” he said in a statement to the Arizona Mirror. “In response, the Senate will focus on advancing amended bills that require final action while we continue working daily to reach a balanced budget. We’re ready to negotiate and get this done.”Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro called Hobbs’s announcement “political theater.”“Governor Hobbs quit the budget talks more than three weeks ago after it became clear her numbers did not add up, and now she is trying to distract from that failure with a bill-signing freeze,” he said in a statement to the Mirror.At the center of Hobbs’s exit from negotiations was Republicans’ refusal to negotiate putting a renewal of Prop. 123, which expired last year, to voters.Arizona voters narrowly favored Prop. 123 in 2016, a vital source of K-12 school funding that made up for the state’s failure to increase funding for public education to keep up with inflation. Its passage settled a lawsuit filed by public schoolsThe $300 million in funding came from an increase in the percentage taken from the state’s land trust to fund public schools, raising the distribution rate from 2.5% to 6.9%.The rate reverted back to the lower threshold in June.Republicans have tried for the past few years to create a plan to renew or revive Prop. 123, but none of those efforts gained traction, and while they agreed to use the state’s general fund to backfill the lost $300 million in education funding last year, there’s no guarantee they’ll continue to do so.When Hobbs walked away from budget negotiations three weeks ago, gubernatorial spokesman Christian Slater blamed Republicans’ refusal to negotiate a Prop. 123 revival on Sen. Jake Hoffman, a Queen Creek Republican and head of the far-right Arizona Freedom Caucus.“Rumors at the Capitol suggest that some Republicans may be tempted to cut a deal with Hobbs on Prop123,” Hoffman wrote in a March 12 post on the social media site X. “The only winner in a political drug deal like this is Hobbs If Republicans decide to surrender on 123, they will be effectively underwriting the Hobbs’ reelection campaign.”On Monday, Hobbs criticised Republicans for their failure to publicly release their own budget proposal after they promised to create their own balanced budget “in the next several weeks” in a March 19 statement. In the same statement, GOP leaders claimed they had already shown Hobbs’s budget team a balanced budget that conformed the Arizona tax code with changes at the federal level.GOP lawmakers want to fully conform to the federal adjustments, changes that would result in tax cuts totaling an estimated $441 million this year.