Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she wants to keep the focus on Arkansas as she prepares to take office as the state’s 47th governor
and her time as President Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she wants to keep her attention on Arkansas as she takes charge as the state's 47th governor.governor of Arkansas, her home state. She also is ascending to the post her father, Mike Huckabee, held for more than a decade., is the best-known former Trump official to assume elected office.
She faces an environment most governors would dream of. Arkansas sits atop more than $2 billion in reserve funds and Republicans expanded their supermajority in the state Legislature in November. Sanders has indicated she will follow the lead of another high-profile GOP governor, Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis, another potential presidential contender. Her pick for education secretary, Jacob Oliva, is one of the top Florida school officials.that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Critics, who have dubbed the ban the"Don't Say Gay" law, have said that type of restriction marginalizes LGBTQ people.
Sanders stopped short of saying whether she will continue Medicaid expansion, but wants to examine its costs and sustainability. “My job and my goal is not to take assistance away from the people who need it, but we also can't bankrupt the state," she said.
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