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ABOUT GLENN
A NEW DAY IN VIRGINIA
Governor Glenn Youngkin is a homegrown Virginian who grew up in Richmond and Virginia Beach. As his father changed jobs, Glenn learned that moving around didn’t equal moving up – nothing was handed to him. From his first job washing dishes and frying eggs at a diner in Virginia Beach, he embraced hard work and responsibility to help his family when his father lost his job.
Cut costs for Virginians
- $5 Billion in tax relief - largest in Virginia's history
- Increased standard deduction to $8,500 for single filers and $17,000 for married filers
- Eliminated Grocery Tax
- Eliminated Regressive Carbon tax
- Eliminated military retirement tax for all veterans on first $40,000
- Cut $1.2 billion in government waste
- Delivered savings on power bills of $14 per month
Keep Our Communities Safe
- Signed bipartisan legislation to combat hate crimes, specifically combating antisemitism in Virginia
- Signed executive order mandating school districts notify parents within 24 hours of a school-related overdose
- Signed bipartisan legislation into law that cracks down on fentanyl pill presses.
- Secured funding to put a trained resources officer in every school
- Ended early release program for 8,000 violent offenders
- Banned dangerous Delta-8 and Synthetic THC products from shelves
- Enacted $10 million to establish the Safer Communities Program
- Provided $400 million for law enforcement pay raises, training, and equipment coupled with dedicated resources to support law enforcement recruitment
Reinvigorate Job Growth
- Created more than 200,000 jobs
- More Virginians working than ever before in history
- Recruited iconic American companies like Raytheon, Boeing, and global leaders like LEGO to Virginia.
- Provided $125 million to support business ready site development
- Provided $75 million to empower the Commonwealth to acquire sites and make them ready for large businesses
- Secured single largest economic development deal in Virginia’s history - $35 billion
- Streamlined 14 workforce development programs across 12 agencies that spent $500 million a year to get Virginians workforce ready
- Signed regulatory relief executive order to reduce regulations by 25%, helping save businesses money to hire more Virginians
- Increased the business interest deduction from 30% to 50%, which will save small businesses and employers $10.3 million annually
- Reclaimed Top State for Business by CNBC
- Delivered on campaign promise to create 10,000+ new business startups
Restore Excellence In Education
- Passed largest education budgets in Virginia’s history
- Launched ALL in VA plan, a comprehensive effort to improve attendance, literacy, and learning in K-12 schools that every school district in the Commonwealth is participating in
- Provided free tutoring for students and parents
- Provided more than $653 million in a single budget for K-12 education, including more than $418 million in immediate funding to combat learning loss and chronic absenteeism
- Provided pay raises for teachers each year in office, increasing teacher pay by 12%
- Invested $100 million for parent choice - opening 20 innovative lab schools that are now in operation across Virginia
- Launched $2.5 billion in school construction grants
- Enhanced literacy by funding reading coaches through third grade
Make Government Work for You
- Launched Right Help, Right Now initiative to transform behavioral health care in Virginia - providing more than $155 million in new spending for Virginians struggling with mental health challenges
- Invested in critical infrastructure projects, including $164 million to widen I-64 between Williamsburg and Richmond
- Enacted legislation to provide pregnancy support for single moms
- Banned discrimination against churches and houses of worship during public health emergencies
- Brought DMV wait times down to 12 minutes
- Cleared massive unemployment backlog of 250,000 separation claims and 1.1 million incomplete tasks left over from previous administration