PHOENIX — Efforts to enact a new state budget just a day before the deadline stalled Monday as some Republican lawmakers pushed to send Gov. Jan Brewer a spending plan she doesn’t like — and essentially dare her to veto it and shut down government.

“We have a budget,’’ said Sen. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, referring to the package adopted June 4 with only Republican votes. He called it “a pretty good budget’’ and said Brewer should sign it.

That budget, however, does not include something Brewer wants — and some Republicans will not support: Putting a measure on the November ballot asking voters to hike the state sales tax for the next three years. That one-cent levy would cost taxpayers $1 billion a year.

Harper acknowledged that sending her that June 4 plan puts Brewer in a take-it-or-leave-it position. He said she will do the former.

But gubernatorial press aide Paul Senseman said lawmakers should not make that assumption.

“It obviously wouldn’t meet with her criteria of approval for a budget that doesn’t devastate our K-12 education system, our university system, our public safety issues, our state’s most vulnerable population,’’ he said.

Sen. Ron Gould, R-Lake Havasu City, isn’t making any predictions of what Brewer will do if the only thing lawmakers send her is the budget she all but has said she would veto. But he, too, wants to send it to her — even if she does reject it and leave the state without a budget.

He said state spending has increased far faster than population growth or inflation.

“Spending is out of control here in the state of Arizona,’’ he said.

“We need to cut, we need to right-size Arizona’s government, and we need to do it quickly,’’ Gould continued. “If we have to shut down government to do it, so be it.’’

Gould said he accepted provisions in that June 4 budget he did not like, like allowing the state to borrow money, because the plan did not hike taxes.

“Now they’re asking me to make a new deal,’’ he said. “I just think that’s a little disingenuous.’’

The sentiment to send Brewer that June 4 budget even extends to Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa. It was Pearce who just two days earlier said he was preparing a temporary budget to keep the state running for at least the next two weeks while negotiations continue past today’s midnight deadline.

“We’re not playing ‘chicken,’ ‘’ Pearce said.

“We passed a budget,’’ he continued. “If she wants to shut government down, she has that choice.’’

Pearce, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, acknowledged Republican leaders reached a deal with the governor to adopt the $8.4 billion spending plan and referring the sales tax hike to the ballot. But he said GOP leaders never guaranteed they would be able to deliver the votes.

“You can’t make people vote on it,’’ he said.

Senseman sidestepped the question of who the public would blame if they wake up Wednesday morning and most state services are not available.

But Sen. Rebecca Rios, D-Apache Junction, said voters should not blame the Democrats.

“We put forward a budget proposal some three months ago,’’ said Rios, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, saying the minority party has offered to negotiate with the Republican majority and the Republican governor. Those offers, she said were rejected.

“I would like to make a very clear distinction to the people of Arizona that we are at this impasse because of petty partisan politics,’’ she said. “The Democrats have not put us in this position. The Republicans have.’’

Senseman said Brewer has “many options’’ other than an outright signature or veto

One of those could be using her power of line-item veto, allowing the parts of the budget she wants to take effect while rejecting those she finds objectionable. But that power is all or nothing: She cannot unilaterally alter any figures.

The delay in adopting a new budget has all been in the Senate.

The plan had been to have the spending plan adopted Monday morning by the Senate Appropriations Committee, where Republicans outnumber Democrats 7-4. But three Republican votes against it stalled further action.

That forced Senate President Bob Burns, R-Peoria, to yank the package from Pearce’s panel and instead refer it to the Committee on Education Accountability and Reform.

Pearce said one reason not to send Brewer an interim budget is that she might be no more inclined to sign that than the June 4 plan. Senseman provided no more insight, saying no one from the Legislature has approached the governor to ask her that question.