By AZ Mirror
Arizona’s Senate Republican leaders say in the coming year they’ll be focused on lowering costs, making communities safer and keeping the state’s economy competitive.
In a lengthy list of priorities for the state legislative session that begins Jan. 12, Senate Republicans heaped praise on President Donald Trump and heavily criticized Arizona’s Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is running for reelection in 2026.
“Arizonans want affordable living, safe neighborhoods, and a government that strengthens – not weakens – our economy,” Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, said in a statement. “While the Governor’s vetoes stall progress, Senate Republicans remain focused on protecting taxpayers, upholding Arizona’s freedoms, and preventing the radical left from turning our state into California.”
In a Monday press statement issued alongside their plan for 2026, Senate Republicans claimed that more Arizonans are moving out of the state than into it, a change that they blamed on policies put in place by Hobbs, who took the governor’s seat in 2023. But the so-called study that they referenced was conducted by the moving company Atlas Van Lines and included only the people who hired the company to help them move.
