When he first became Governor in 2021, the largest tax cut in Utah history was $250 million. In his first four years in office, Governor Cox and the Legislature have cut taxes by $1.3 billion.

The reason that we could have such a historic tax cut while still seeing budget growth for things like education and road projects is because Utah has the strongest economy and is one of the fastest growing states in the nation. As our kids and grandkids get good-paying jobs in Utah, they stay here instead of moving elsewhere. They pay taxes which helps grow the existing tax base even with these major tax cuts. Those residents need services as well just like the rest of us and so those dollars have been dedicated to help improve our state’s infrastructure.

As Governor Cox said in his State of the State address, he would love to build a wall around Utah and make California pay for it. He even received some criticism from national media sources with the headline: “Utah governor tells Californians to stay in California.”

Since becoming Governor, Utah has dramatically reduced state tax incentives for new jobs and instead prioritized these programs in rural Utah where we haven’t seen the same level of economic success.

Governor Cox wants Utah to be the best place to live in the nation. He wants Utah to be the best place to start a business. He wants Utah to be the best place to have a family. We must always keep it that way even with our growth challenges.

The single largest threat to our future prosperity is the price of housing. Period. Housing attainability is a crisis in Utah and every state in this country.

About 15 years ago, what happened was builders stopped building single family starter homes like the homes so many of us grew up in. We're talking about a 1,500-square foot home under $300,000. What they started doing was either building high density – so these big apartment complexes – or big houses for upper middle class and wealthier people. That needs to change.

Governor Cox has set a goal to build 35,000 starter homes over the next five years. To do that, the Legislature passed bills this session that will incentivize builders to start constructing these starter homes again. If they build these kinds of projects, they get access to lower interest rate loans to build homes under $300,000 that can be starter homes for our kids and grandkids.

This is the American dream. You need your own space. And we're better off as communities when you own a home and you have a yard and your kids are able to play in that yard.

This is a conspiracy theory that the government is trying to build a 15-minute city where it plans everything. Proponents of the theory say that the government is trying to use it like a prison to keep people in. Governor Cox is obviously opposed to anything close to resembling this kind of reality. This conspiracy is not a thing here in Utah.

Utah is NOT a sanctuary state. Governor Cox has sent troops to the southern border and has the full support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott in his reelection bid.

The source of this attack comes from political opponents and a Biden appointee who runs ICE and immigration services in the state of Utah. The Biden administration official was trying to embarrass Utah sheriffs and later was forced to retract his letter once the sheriffs called him out on it.

The Biden Administration should do their job and protect our southern border instead of trying to cast blame on others like Utah sheriffs who are the ones on the ground trying to solve the mess created by the federal government. It’s disappointing that some political candidates have tried to use this as a tool to promote their own candidacies. Conservative county sheriffs in the state came out a few weeks ago with a press statement calling on political candidates to stop lying and saying that Utah is a sanctuary state. In Utah, we uphold the law.

No. Governor Cox has never accepted a dime from Planned Parenthood. In fact, Planned Parenthood is actively suing his administration for the pro-life legislation that he signed.

Governor Cox has signed the most comprehensive abortion reform in our state’s history. He feels confident that we're going to win that lawsuit and that we will be able to put those abortion reforms into place.

Unfortunately election season is “silly season” where political candidates will say anything to get elected, and this is another example of that.

Three years ago, Governor Cox was on a Zoom call with some high school students talking about issues impacting their lives.

At the very end of the call, the very last person began talking about suicide. She was incredibly nervous, and Governor Cox was worried that perhaps she was speaking of personal experience and suicide and mental health issues. In that moment, she shared her pronouns with the Governor, and in a moment of levity and to try to lighten the situation, Governor Cox responded by doing the same. She smiled and she laughed.

That was it. That's the only time he has ever shared pronouns.

Sadly, a year later, someone took that video and spliced the footage. They cut out that piece, and then they pasted it in the introduction to make it look like Governor Cox goes around introducing himself with pronouns.

It’s unfortunate that we live in a time where people will create fake videos to try and damage others, but that is the reality of our times. It speaks to the polarization in our political system right now that somebody would intentionally lie and deceive people to try to get political gain.

Election integrity and election security are at the heart of our republic, and Utah has put an enormous amount of attention on this, including several key bills that were passed over the last four years.

Although the lieutenant governor technically oversees elections in the state, the lieutenant governor does not run elections. Every single election in our state, a presidential election, a statewide election, a county election, is run at the county level by our elected county clerks.

Lieutenant governors don't count a single ballot. It's one of the reasons Utah pushes back so hard against the federal government getting more involved in elections. It's much harder to hack an election when you have 29 elections in Utah and thousands of elections across the country that are done at the county level.

Thanks to these improvements, there is so much more auditing that goes on now. The counts are checked, double checked, and triple checked. Utah has added security video cameras to drop boxes to make sure that they can't be tampered with.

Because of these improvements, Utah elections have never been more secure than they are right now, the Cox-Henderson Administration is very proud of the great work that has been accomplished as a state.

The answer is no. Governor Cox is not interested in appointing any of them. It’s also helpful to remind people that such a change would require a constitutional amendment, something very difficult to accomplish.

When it comes to a constitutional amendment, the governor actually has no say in any of that. Those are the only bills that a governor doesn't sign or veto. They have to be passed by a constitutional majority, a two-thirds majority of the Legislature. Only the people of Utah then get to vote on that to decide if that is a change they want or not.

What the Legislature did was different than what you’ve seen in other states. Some people assume that the State of Utah is writing out a big check for a new hockey arena because that’s what other states have done. Not Utah. In fact, no state tax dollars are being used for a new arena.

The legislative bill allows Salt Lake City the ability – if they choose to exercise it – to raise sales tax by half a percent only in Salt Lake City to pay for major changes to downtown Salt Lake City. This would include the areas surrounding the current Delta Center and not just the proposed hockey arena expansion. Unless you live or spend money in Salt Lake City, you won't pay a dime in taxes towards that renovation of downtown and all of the other changes. Again, Salt Lake City will have to decide if they want to do that.

So it’s essentially up to the city council and the mayor. It's very different from what you're seeing in Nevada and other places, where out of the general fund of the state, they're writing a check to help build a stadium. That's not happening here.

No, boys should not play in girls sports.

Idaho was the first state to pass a ban on transgender participation in sports so that biological males could not participate in women's sports. What happened immediately following that was a lawsuit, and the judge put that law on hold. It’s been almost three years, and in Idaho, transgender females, biological males, can still play sports because that case is still being litigated. Utah looked at that and said, let's not go that direction.

We asked ourselves, is there something else we can do? We worked all year on a plan that, until the court cases were decided and a full ban could be implemented, would allow us to still protect women's sports.

The idea was this, If you wanted to play, you would have to go present before that committee. They would look at your physical characteristics, and if there was any chance that you would present a safety risk or competitive advantage like we saw with the college swimmer at Penn, they would prohibit you from playing. We were hoping that that would withstand a court challenge until these other decisions were made.

The last day of the session, it was ready, the bill got presented, and at the last minute, literally just a couple hours before midnight, someone substituted that bill with a complete ban. There were no public hearings, there was no input, and everyone knew there would be a lawsuit just like Idaho.

The key problem in the bill was there was nothing in there to indemnify or protect the school that got sued or the Utah High School Athletic Association. The High School Athletic Association said a lawsuit would bankrupt them which would mean no high school sports for anyone in Utah. And what about the school that was sued. How would they pay for this multimillion-dollar lawsuit? Would they need to raise taxes on local citizens to pay for it?

Now, here's what happened. The Governor vetoed the bill and immediately called a special session of the Legislature to fix the problems in the bill. Together they introduced a new bill that solved these problem. It had the ban in there, which everyone knew would be challenged, but it also had the commission, and it indemnified the school and the Utah High School Athletic Association in case there was a lawsuit. Governor Cox signed that bill. Almost no one in Utah knows that Governor Cox signed the bill banning biological males from participating in female sports.

What happened? We got sued, just as everyone suspected. Just like Idaho, the judge blocked the commission from being used until a full decision was litigated, but the part of the bill that we had actually worked on for a year, the judge did not put that on pause. That is in place. Utah is one of the few states able to prevent biological males from competing in girls sports. .

Last year, Governor Cox also signed a comprehensive bill that protects women's spaces, including locker rooms and bathrooms. The Governor believes Utah is doing it the right way, and we have a very strong record to stand on.

All 50 governors are part of a group called the National Governors Association (NGA). It's a bipartisan organization. Every year the White House hosts the NGA. During that dinner, there is a tradition to have the Chair toast the president. It doesn't matter to what party the president belongs or to what party the Chair belongs, they always do a toast. Governor Cox is the chair now. He became chair of the National Governors Association because the Republican governors across the country voted for him to serve as the Chair.

This doesn't mean that Governor Cox supports President Biden. In fact, the Cox-Henderson Administration has sued President Biden and his administration over 60 times and has called on President Biden to reverse his border policies and secure the border.

The Cox-Henderson Administration has sued the federal government more than 60 times because of their overreach on BLM lands, Forest Service land, and even individual roads. Those lawsuits also include pushing back on the national monument designations that use the Antiquities Act to justify their overreach. With a conservative Supreme Court, the Cox-Henderson Administration is working as quickly as possible to get those cases in front of them.

Governor Cox has also brought western governors together, many of whom share the same concerns on public lands.

Governor Cox has worked with the Legislature to pass and sign into law some of the most comprehensive abortion reforms in the state's history to limit abortions and to protect the unborn. The State of Utah has been sued on those pieces of legislation, and the Cox-Henderson Administration is working to vigorously defend those lawsuits.

Governor Cox has been working with researchers and experts in Utah and across the country on this issue. It's becoming more and more clear that social media is a major cause of this significant increase in teen mental health struggles.

More importantly, when it comes to social media we want to empower parents. We want to make it easier for parents to decide what’s best for their families. We also are working to make it harder for unknown strangers to get access to your kids and to their information.

We're also trying to limit screen time in schools. There was a study that just came out that showed that in schools where they limited cell phones they saw improved mental health rates and reduced bullying. They saw grades go up, as well as test scores. It's just better for everyone.

DEI is a far left political philosophy that divides us instead of bringing us together. It actually discriminates on the basis of race. It is less inclusive. It is not about equality, and it's very dangerous.

We worked very closely with the Board of Higher Education and the Legislature to eliminate DEI programs from our schools and universities.

We encourage voters to look at actual policy and accomplishments. Conservatism isn’t treating others with contempt and anger. Conservatism is getting the government out of the way and allows Utahns to grow and flourish. Governor Cox wants to help all Utahns understand why conservative policies are the best for our state – without creating division.

As Governor Cox himself said:

“What I would say is, judge me by what we've accomplished and for the passage of constitutional carry, protecting our Second Amendment rights. Judge me by the largest tax cuts in Utah history. That's conservatism. Judge me by stopping DEI and CRT and ESG. Those are conservative wins. Judge me by the pro-life bills that we have passed and for sending troops to the border and the support I have from my friend, the governor of Texas. I'm very proud of what Utah is accomplishing and the way Utah is being received. We've been named the number one economy in the nation in the past year, the number one state overall in the nation over the past year. We've been named the number one state for economic outlook 17 years in a row, and we've been named the happiest state in America. I believe we're the happiest state in America because of our conservative values.”