SANTA FE — The price tag of a universal child care program launched this fall by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration drew pointed questions this week from legislators, who also expressed misgivings about the initiative's rollout.

Early Childhood Education and Care Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky disputed some legislative cost estimates for the program, while defending the department's request for $160 million in additional funding to run the universal child care initiative in the coming year. That would bring total state child care assistance spending to roughly $600 million per year.

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