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Under Republican Leadership, Florida Receives Highest Credit Rating In State History

Republican Governor Rick Scott’s pro-growth policies have Florida firing on all cylinders.

The RGA writes:

Republican Governor Rick Scott’s pro-growth policies have Florida firing on all cylinders.

Just last week, a new jobs report showed Florida created another 19,000 new private sector jobs in May, dropping the state unemployment rate to 3.8 percent. Remarkably, Florida has created over 1.5 million jobs on Governor Scott’s watch with 180,000 new jobs this year alone.

Now, Governor Scott has announced that the credit rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service, is upgrading Florida’s General Obligation (GO) bond rating to AAA, the highest possible rating. With this change, all three of the major credit rating agencies have the state’s GO bonds at AAA status for the first time in Florida history.

Governor Scott’s success on the economy and budget shows why the Florida can’t afford to let Democrats turn back the clock by enacting higher taxes and other anti-jobs policies.

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American Farmland

Lawmakers in South Dakota announced a move to more heavily scrutinize foreign purchases of farmland from investors in adversarial nations such as China

TikTok Ban

The Republican governors of three more states have joined the growing number of GOP governors who are banning TikTok among state government employees amid security concerns about the Chinese-owned social media platform

Border Action

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has had hundreds of double-stacked shipping containers topped with razor wire placed on the state’s border with Mexico

Investigation

New Georgia Project's charity license has lapsed in at least nine states

Budget Address

In about thirty minutes of remarks, Governor Kristi Noem laid out her administration would like to see nearly $2.2 billion spent over the course of the next fiscal year and a half.

TikTok

South Carolina became the second state in the union Monday to permanently ban state employees’ electronic devices from using TikTok amid federal officials sounding the alarm that the Chinese-based social media app threatens national security