Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, and House Speaker Steve Montenegro, R-Surprise, requested $599 million in their letter to get back the money the state spent on southern border security during the Biden administration.
Arizona spent this money through the Border Security Fund, which was created in 2021 and 2022, according to the state Senate GOP caucus press release. Additionally, Arizona’s annual budgets from 2021 to 2025 gave the Arizona Department of Public Safety and local sheriffs $145 million for border-related enforcement.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act authorized $10 billion for the costs states absorbed for border security during the Biden administration.
“In all our years serving the people of Arizona, never have we seen such an abject failure of the federal government in protecting
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