Hobbs orders hiring freeze, wants agencies to propose spending cuts

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Hobbs orders hiring freeze, wants agencies to propose spending cuts

Gov. Katie Hobbs has ordered what is essentially a hiring freeze for new state employees and instructed her department heads to send her a plan this week to cut $1.2 billion in spending out of their current and coming year budgets. The move is a major admission that the state’s budget shortfall is going to require big belt-tightening, and fast. The details were outlined in a Friday letter to state agency heads from Hobbs’ operations director obt…