• Fighting for family values

• Supports Constitutional Carry.

• Opposes Red Flag Laws.

• Will Fight to Protect Life EVERY TIME.

• Opposes illegal immigration.

• Passed tuition waivers for Purple Heart recipients.

• Passed state spending limitations.

• Stopped Obamacare expansion.

• Cut $400 million in taxes.

• Eliminated the state sales tax on food.

Throughout his legislative career, Greg Hughes has been a leader for education reform, fighting for more local control, parental choice, charter schools and increased innovation in education delivery and education funding. He has also consistently fought back against federal encroachment in our education system.

• Increased parental choice

• Carson Smith Special Needs Scholarship

• Expanded charter schools

• Utah School Readiness Initiative

• Advocate of local control

• Consistently pushed back against federal encroachment

• Increased transparency

Through his efforts to reform our tax code by cutting taxes at historic levels, and by cutting burdensome regulations, Utah’s economy has become one of the best in the nation.

Because of this, during his time as Speaker, Greg was able to increase education funding to record levels by adding $1.7 billion in new money for Utah schools.

Greg Hughes spent his years in the legislature prioritizing legislation to reflect the gratitude and respect that we, as citizens, feel for our military men and women. They give so much to protect our freedoms and we should do all that we can to provide opportunity for them and their families when they return home, as well as take care of them when they are in need of assistance.

• Created the Department of Veterans’ & Military Affairs.

• Passed the Utah Purple Heart Recipients’ Act

• Passed the Scott B. Lundell Tuition Waiver

• Passed a property tax exemption for disabled veterans, or the dependents of military members killed while serving our country.

• Passed the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children

• Passed a bill that requires the Utah National Guard salaries to be on par with their federal counterparts

• Passed a resolution supporting a veterans’ freedom memorial in Utah

• Funded three new veterans nursing homes getting them built far ahead of when they were scheduled to be.

For far too long Washington DC has controlled the West - and I’ve had it. I’ve had enough of their mismanagement, I’ve had enough of them blocking our ability to responsibly manage OUR lands and I’ve had enough at their attempt at population control.

Over 65% of our state is controlled by the Federal government. 90% of Utah’s population lives on 1% of our ground. We are one of the fastest growing states in the nation yet we aren’t able to properly plan our infrastructure needs to support this growth, are limited in our efforts to expand commerce and we are restricted in our ability to fund our schools.

• Sponsored the resolution calling on President Trump to Rescind the Bears Ears National Monument declaration.

• Worked with the Trump Administration on monument reductions.

• Stood with San Juan, Garfield and other rural counties in defending their local control.

• Fought to compell the federal government to honor our statehood promise to transfer title to our public lands.

• Assembled and supported the Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands.

• Consistently pushed back against federal encroachment

Why is it that 38 states have been recognized as sovereign, yet 12 states in the West remain under federal control? It represents the worst gerrymandering in the history of this country as those in DC seek to limit our representation and influence. And what do we get as a consolation prize? It is called PILT which is the acronym for Payment in Lieu of Taxes - in my mind, a more appropriate term would be Pennies in Lieu of Trillions. And speaking of trillions, I’m done listening to a dysfunctional Federal Government that is $19 trillion in debt and telling us they can manage ANYTHING better than we can. I have a message for them - in Utah we get things done and we will always manage EVERYTHING better than they do

• Will work to reinstitute federal lands transfers to states

• Will fight for more access to oil, coal, and natural gas

• Worked with President Trump to get Bears Ears and Staircase Escalante monuments reduced.

• Pushing back against bureaucratic rule-making that threatens to destroy rural economies.