Republican governors and state lawmakers are eager to explicitly share some of the most outstanding actions the president has taken since he was sworn in or imitate some of the most outstanding actions.
With the state legislature convened nationwide in recent weeks, elected Republican officials have tried to propose bills designed to help promote Trump’s massive deportation program, some of which are named after the president or specifically mention the president. Governors and lawmakers in at least 11 states are trying to create their own version of the government efficiency division, a foreign advisory committee led by tech billionaire Elon Musk to find ways to reduce federal spending .
At the beginning of Trump’s second term, these moves focused primarily on a solid red country, highlighting his political grip on the Republican base and the desire for elected officials in the party rather than loyalty to him.
"Whether you want to call it a mandate or a strong victory, it doesn't seem unusual to me," said Zack Roday, the national leader of Trump-setting Trump. "The weapons of several conservative governors. “It makes perfect sense – the label is less than the spirit and joins the waves across the country.”
A recent example is in Oklahoma, Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an executive order Monday to establish a “government efficiency department within state agencies in charge of human resources and information technology. ” (called Doge-Ok).
Stitt's press release said the agency will aim to "focus on eliminating wasted government spending, increasing efficiency, and ensuring effective use of taxpayer money in state governments."
Trump's path has upended the federal government over the past few weeks, with Musk getting the Treasury payment system and suggesting that the U.S. international development agencies will be shut down.
The Oklahoma department will be led by "the chief gate consultant" who reports directly to the governor, Steet's office said. A Stitt spokesman did not answer NBC News’ questions about who was attacked to fill the post.
In New Hampshire, Gov. Kelly Ayotte also signed an executive order on the day he was sworn in last month to create the "Committee for Government Efficiency" (COGE).
Ayotte's committee consists of 15 members appointed by her and legislative leaders and will be accused of "submitting her" proposal for "simplifying the government, cutting inefficient spending, and finding the most effective way to serve the people of New Hampshire) "" ". To date, the committee includes former governors, current and former state lawmakers, as well as some local business leaders.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry are both Republicans, showing their desire to move on. Reynolds said she intends to set up a Governor’s task force in Iowa, and Landry signed an executive order in December to develop a “Financial Responsibility Plan” with its goal Similar to Trump's path.
Additionally, in states with Democratic governors including Wisconsin, Arizona and North Carolina, several Republican-led legislatures have recently formed state legislative committees that are aligned with Doge. Republican lawmakers in Idaho, Texas, Kansas and Missouri also said they are planning to introduce recommendations to establish similar committees.
Republican state officials are also trying to help promote or strengthen Trump's tough immigration policies.
Oklahoma State Principal Ryan Walters, who runs the state board of education, approved the new rules last week that require all families recruiting public school children to provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
The new rules (if approved by the governor and state legislature) would require public school districts to track students who are unable to verify their immigration status and report those numbers to state officials.
In fact, this will help build a new state-owned system to help track undocumented people in the state and could drive local elements of Trump’s massive deportation drive.
"You have to come around the data you have to come around the kids. We will make sure President Trump and his administration have this information," Walters said at a meeting of the Oklahoma State Board of Education last week.
Critics believe the action would almost certainly violate a 1982 Supreme Court ruling that found that the government could not prevent undocumented children from attending public schools.
Meanwhile, Republican governors in Tennessee and Florida convened a special meeting last month to resolve or relate to the Trump administration’s push for deportation. Some bills passing these meetings were even named after the president, such as the Illegal Immigration Policy (Trump) Act, carried out in Florida and reformed Illegal Immigration Policy (Trump) Act
In Florida, preliminary proposals for the special session include the repeal of in-state tuition for undocumented students, strengthening state and local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, creating a state immigration law enforcement role to coordinate specifically with the federal government and strengthen state deportation . Regulations.
Originally called the Special Legislative Council, Gov. Ron DeSantis aims to ensure state laws closely match a series of executive orders signed by Trump. (The MPs rebuked DeSantis’s special meeting and eventually convened their own). The final bill includes mandatory death sentences for undocumented immigrants who are guilty of murder and rape and raise the verdicts for other crimes.
But DeSantis may have vetoed much of the past due to an ongoing power struggle with the Republican-led legislature.
In Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee convened a special legislative session to “resolve public safety measures regarding illegal immigration as the incoming Trump administration calls on states to prepare for policy implementation.”
Tennessee lawmakers passed several bills last week that created conservative policies on education and immigration issues, including those that created a central state office for immigration issues and to local police departments to help implement federal immigration operations department. Another measure that makes local office holders vote for the asylum policy is a felony.
Groups advocating progressive national-level policies have blown up a large number of actions by conservative nations across the country.
“Right-wing state lawmakers are not only the rubber stamp of Trump’s worst instincts and policies, but they also push for more extreme policies that we know, we know, we know that it will increase costs, undermine our personal freedoms, and make us The security of the country has been reduced. "Mandara Meyers, chief program officer of the National Program, a united Democratic Party, has greatly improved the party's state legislative prospects in recent years.