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Glenn Youngkin served as the 74th Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 2020, Governor Youngkin took a bold step and left his role as Co-CEO of one of the leading investment firms in the world, the Carlyle Group, to win the 2021 Governor’s race and ignite the Great Virginia Renaissance. During Governor Youngkin’s term-limited four years in office, business investment soared to $157 billion – more than the previous six governors combined. Governor Youngkin passed a historic $9 billion in working class tax relief and slashed regulations by 35%. Pro-growth policies drove record job growth with nearly 270,000 more Virginians working by the end of his term and committed business investment that will create another 85,000 permanent and 40,000 construction jobs. As America’s Education Governor, Youngkin’s policies delivered record education investment, helped Virginia lead in recovering learning loss after the pandemic, set a national standard for bell-to-bell cellphone-free education, expanded choice, and did all of this with parents at the head seat of the table. Governor Youngkin backed the blue with historic funding for law enforcement and tough-on-crime policies that led to a 30% reduction in the murder rate and a nearly 60% reduction in fentanyl overdoses, leading the nation. Always a businessman, Youngkin brought a business mindset to government – reducing wait times at the DMV from 35 minutes to 6 minutes, transforming the behavioral health system, streamlining 35% of Virginia’s state regulations, and delivering $10 billion in budget surpluses. Governor Youngkin’s commonsense conservative leadership delivered for Virginians on his frequent refrain that “results matter”. Governor Youngkin received degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Management Studies from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University, and has been married to his amazing wife Suzanne for 32 years. Suzanne and Glenn are blessed with four grown children and continue to be guided by their faith.
CUTTING COSTS FOR VIRGINIANS
- $9 billion in tax relief for hardworking Virginians
- State grocery tax eliminated
- Standard deduction nearly doubled
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) tax eliminated
- Electric vehicle mandate eliminated
- Military retirement tax eliminated (up to $40,000)
- $4,600 in tax relief for the typical family
- $12,600 in tax relief for the typical veteran family
- $24,000 eliminated from average cost to build a house
- Streamlined 35% of regulations, saving Virginians $1.4 billion per year
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KEEPING COMMUNITIES SAFE AND HEALTHY
- Homicides down 30%
- Fatal fentanyl overdoses down 59% — leading the nation in reductions
- 7,000+ criminal illegal immigrants arrested by Virginia Homeland Security Task Force
- 68% reduction in maternal mortality
- Right Help, Right Now Behavioral Crisis Transformation: 241% more treatment beds and chairs, 3x more mobile crisis teams and 2x more licensed care facilities, and 456% increase in crisis calls answered
- 30,000 new health care professionals licensed
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MAKING GOVERNMENT WORK FOR VIRGINIANS
- DMV wait times reduced to 5.9 minutes from high of 35 minutes
- High-speed broadband expansion: 3x more connections built than any other state and 100% connection plan fully funded
- $10 billion in total budget surpluses and $4.7 billion in reserves
- Hundreds of millions in savings across IT, procurement, and health care
- Healthiest Chesapeake Bay in decades supported by record funding for agricultural best management practices
- Virginia #1 State for Veterans
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REINVIGORATING THE ECONOMY
- $157 billion in private business investment
- 695,000 JOBS: ~270,000 jobs filled, ~255,000 jobs open, ~85,000 long-term jobs on the way, ~40,000 construction jobs on the way
- #1 State for Business
- Wage growth outpaced national average
- Over 20,000 high-growth startups launched
- 35% reduction in regulatory burdens
- Permitting times slashed up to 86%
- $24,000 cut from the cost of new home construction
- Over $100 billion in capital investment and 32,000 jobs in the economic development pipeline
- Revenue growing 60% faster over the last four years than the previous decade
- Record $550 million in sites and infrastructure investments committed
- #1 in Registered Apprenticeship Programs and 40% Increase in Apprentices
- Launched Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Corridor with $13 billion surge in private investment
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RESTORING EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
- Record education investment: $7 billion increase since pandemic
- Bell-to-bell cell phone-free schools across the Commonwealth
- Math learning loss recovery up nearly 20% — leading 47 states
- 4 out of 5 graduating seniors earn a credential or certificate
- Ranked #1 state to be a teacher
- Teacher compensation up nearly 20%
- Teacher vacancies down nearly 36%
- Standards raised in math, English and language arts, and computer science
- $2 billion total in school construction funding
- Virginia Literacy Act enacted and funded
- 15 new lab schools serving 5,000 students, with more on the way
- Chronic absenteeism down 26% – leading the nation – 14 million more hours learning!
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Jan. 23, 2026
By most observable measures Mr. Youngkin’s time in office was a success: He exits with a hefty budget surplus, a strong economy and a roughly 50% job-approval rating—impressive for a Republican in a mostly Democratic state.
Jan. 15, 2026
Can a Republican Governor make a difference in a state dominated by a Democratic Legislature and left-leaning voters? Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has done it in his single term, and he’s leaving his Democratic successor with a strong economy and fiscal gusher.
Jan. 19, 2026
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin retired last Saturday, constrained by term limits to just four years in office. But his single term was easily one of the most successful of any governor in recent memory.
Jan. 8, 2026
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, like the governors who preceded him, inherited a tattered mental health system that did not meet the pressing needs of commonwealth residents.
April 4, 2025
One of the worst aspects of Old Dominion politics is that the best governors are kicked out after four years. Come November, Virginia’s voters must replace Glenn Youngkin, a Republican who has underpromised and overdelivered in a state that has increasingly fallen under the spell of liberalism.