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Governor
Governor, Arizona
November 3, 2026 · 8 statements · 2026.09.23-bdebab36
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Andy BiggsRepublicanKatie HobbsDemocratic, incumbent
State statements
TaxesNo. 1/8
Arizona should eliminate its state income tax.
Background
Arizona currently has a flat 2.5 percent personal income tax that helps fund the state budget. Eliminating it would remove that revenue source, requiring spending cuts or other revenue.
I have every confidence that as we manage it and we incrementally bring this down you're going to see more economic activity which is going to result in more tax revenue coming into the state.
Arizona should scale back eligibility for its universal education savings accounts.
Background
Since 2022, every Arizona K-12 student can get an education savings account to pay for private school or other education costs. Scaling it back would limit which students qualify, such as by income or prior public school enrollment.
If you were to actually incentivize charters and private schools to go into, let's say, economically disadvantaged or rural areas, which you can do, you provide the opportunity for more kids to have more choice in using ESAs, etc.
The current program is unchecked, flawed, and rife with exploitation... Today, it has ballooned into a billion-dollar boondoggle increasingly scamming Arizonans.
Campaign or official site · Jan 16, 2025 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026
Arizona should set limits on groundwater pumping in rural areas that currently have none.
Background
Most of rural Arizona has no state limits on how much groundwater can be pumped, unlike the state's major urban areas. This would create state rules to manage pumping in some of those rural basins.
No, I don't think it means we need more conservation laws, Biggs said. I think it means we need more understanding of the hydrology of it... I don't think you need new laws to do those two things.
Rural Arizonans are fed up with seeing their wells going dry and their futures being pumped out from beneath them as their precious groundwater aquifers are depleted and exploited
Campaign or official site · Jan 30, 2025 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026
Arizona should require state and local police to help enforce federal immigration law.
Background
Arizona agencies currently decide much of their own level of cooperation with federal immigration authorities. This would make that cooperation, such as honoring detention requests, a state requirement.
Congress must authorize states to act because the Biden Administration has refused to enforce our nation's federal immigration laws amid a historic invasion.
Campaign or official site · Oct 14, 2022 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026
does not secure our border, will be harmful for communities and businesses in our state, and burdensome for law enforcement personnel and the state judicial system.
Campaign or official site · Mar 4, 2024 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026
Arizona should pay for state-built barriers along the border with Mexico.
Background
Border barriers are mainly a federal responsibility, though Arizona placed shipping containers along parts of the border in 2022 before removing them. This would use state funds to build or place barriers.
Arizona should keep covering low-income adults under Medicaid even if federal funding for them drops.
Background
Arizona covers low-income adults through Medicaid expansion, and a state law ends that coverage if the federal share falls below a set level. This would keep the coverage in place by using more state money if needed.
My colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus and I worked diligently with President Trump and House and Senate Leadership to push for significant spending reductions and reforms to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.
Campaign or official site · Jul 3, 2025 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026
These proposed federal Medicaid cuts threaten to kick hundreds of thousands of Arizonans off their health insurance and could devastate clinics and hospitals throughout Arizona, especially in rural areas.
Campaign or official site · May 29, 2025 · retrieved Sep 23, 2026
Arizona should require background checks for all gun sales, including private sales.
Background
In Arizona, licensed dealers must run background checks, but private sales between individuals do not require one. This would extend the check requirement to most private sales.
Arizona should require voters to show photo ID to vote by any method, including by mail.
Background
Arizona requires ID to vote in person, while mail ballots are verified by matching the voter's signature. This would add an ID requirement for mail and other early ballots.