States are preparing to help or thwart Trump’s second-term plans

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-12 12:05:35 | Updated at 2025-01-12 14:56:52 3 hours ago

States are preparing to help or thwart Trump’s second-term plans
AP News ^ | January 12, 2025 | DAVID A. LIEB AND GEOFF MULVIHILL

Posted on 01/12/2025 3:23:31 AM PST by deport

In many cases, political party identification has come to define public policy, percolating from the nation’s capital down to the 50 statehouses.

Many Republican state officials are aligning with Trump’s policies by pledging to help him crack down on illegal immigration, for example. Some Democratic state officials are mounting a resistance movement, looking for ways to shield their states from potential federal policies restricting abortion and transgender rights, among other things. Some prominent Democratic governors, meanwhile, have taken a more conciliatory approach in an effort to forge a working relationship with the new administration.

Here’s a look at what to expect in some policy areas:

Immigration Governors and lawmakers in red states are lining up behind Trump’s pledge to crack down on illegal immigration and deport many who are living in the U.S. illegally '''''''

Abortion Most U.S. abortions are carried out using drugs rather than through surgical procedures, and that is where the current abortion fight is focused.

At least four states — Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire and Tennessee — have bills introduced aimed at banning pills.

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Education Several efforts to expand the use of public money to pay for kids to attend private school suffered high-profile defeats in the November elections, including in Nebraska, Kentucky and Colorado.

But Trump’s victory is seen as a boon for such efforts, which in recent years have exploded in popularity. //////////

Public health With an incoming presidential administration that has indicated fluoride and vaccines might be in its crosshairs, lawmakers in a few states have filed bills that would end fluoridation programs and further restrict COVID-19 mandates.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: obstruction; rebellion; trump

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1 posted on 01/12/2025 3:23:31 AM PST by deport

To: deport

These thwarter blue states are about to have their tax dollars formerly dedicated to sanctuary city budgets reduced to zero.

They will collapse and lose any support as the illegals hit the streets to loot , steal, pillage and burn like they are doing in California.

2 posted on 01/12/2025 3:28:38 AM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)

To: deport

I want the democrats to keep doing what they are doing.

I want every American to see them for what they are, for what they have been since their inception. I want this party to FINALLY be shoved into history where it belongs- aside every bad idea we have ever had.

3 posted on 01/12/2025 3:33:39 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)

To: deport

Do these blue states really think the money they enjoy for their bs programs will continue flowing? choke chain them all

To: 13Sisters76

If the keep their “sanctuary” policies, let remove all illegals from the red states first.
Illegals will naturally move to the socialist states and people there will hopefully revolt.

5 posted on 01/12/2025 3:42:27 AM PST by AZJeep

To: deport

Money is tight these days, I hope they choose their battles well. It would suck for them to commit the treasury to fighting Trump and then a disaster happens and have no money to pay for it.

6 posted on 01/12/2025 3:45:42 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )

To: deport

Some states are prepared to go scorched earth, and one literally is.

7 posted on 01/12/2025 3:47:40 AM PST by FlipWilson

To: deport

start enforcing federal law on these people and their shenanigans will stop real quick

8 posted on 01/12/2025 4:00:53 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)

To: deport

“Trump’s policies by pledging to help him crack down on illegal immigration”

How much fun is this going to be this year, illegals that have also voted for Biden/Harris...imagine the joy when we say that “democrats are being from the mountaintops” and it is actually true.

9 posted on 01/12/2025 4:04:18 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)

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