Republican-run states see opportunity to push extreme policies under Trump

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Source: The Guardian

Wed 1 Jan 2025 10.00 EST
Last modified on Wed 1 Jan 2025 11.32 EST


Republican state lawmakers and conservative leaders around the United States see Donald Trump’s re-election as a mandate that will help them enact rightwing policies in Republican-run states across the US. The policies include steep tax cuts, environmental legislation, religion in schools and legislation concerning transgender medical care and education, among other hot-button social issues. Republicans will have trifecta control – meaning both legislative bodies and the governorship in a state – in 23 states next year, while Democrats will only control the three entities in 15 states. The other states have divided government.

“Arkansans went very favorably for President Trump, and I think Arkansans feel very similarly about President Trump as they do” Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said Ryan Rose, a Republican state representative in Arkansas, where his party has the trifecta. “That will only empower our state to continue forward with more conservative policies, putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Arkansans with tax cuts and supporting Arkansas conservative family values.”

While that federal and state control could allow Republicans to advance their top priorities, leaders of progressive groups point to other election outcomes – such as some red states supporting abortion rights – as evidence that even if people voted for Trump, that does not necessarily mean they support what opponents describe as extreme proposals. And they remain optimistic that they will prevail against such measures in court.

“We are in a moment right now where the incoming administration” won “by distancing themselves from these very policies that it now seems that they are seeking to accelerate”, said Skye Perryman, president of Democracy Forward, a liberal legal group that includes more than 800 lawyers and has filed legal challenges to Republican regulations and administrative actions.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/01/republican-states-trump

[2naSalit]

1. Yup...

And for look at a peach tree example, look no further than Montana. It sure as hell ain't like it used to be and that sucks.

[VMA131Marine]

2. And so the race to the bottom in red states begins

As always lower taxes benefit the wealthiest most and take needed services away from the poorest who pay little to none of their income in income taxes but proportionally a lot more in sales and property taxes and fees.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Yep.

I hope everyone remembers that beautiful heaven that was the Outer Banks, because that view is going to be filled with drilling rigs if the rethugs have their way. Gods help us all.

[GreenWave]

5. They talked about drill baby drill off Va Beach coast and the US Navy opposed it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. And, that should bleed over into the Banks, but still...

Everything south of Myrtle Beach will be dotted with them. Plus, we will see how things play out. That orange gibbon may succeed in pressuring the Navy to step aside. Then, Va. Beach will start looking like a scene out of 'The War Of The Worlds' as well.

Let's hope more than the Navy objects to any such suggestions.

[GreenWave]

8. And some drilling operations go sideways like in Alaska.

The bastards created an "island and then drilled sideways to where they wanted to go.

https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/press/article/drill-baby-drilld-do-it-sideways-says-senator

[pfitz59]

4. The next generation of Dems will have to step in

to fix the damage these rampaging elephants will cause.

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. Project 2025 steam-rolling ahead in Red States.

American schoolchildren rendering the Pledge of Allegiance circa 1930s (Photo: Public domain).

[PortTack]

9. Yes red states...race to bottom. Decimate education, health care, civil rights, poverty. See how that works

To bolster your ppl, tourism, land values…go ahead.

The rest, need to move away. And b4 you post I can’t, ppl can’t, I say your circumstances are going to get a lot worse…what then? Please don’t wait…move.

[Omaha Steve]

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