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Wes Moore served as a paratrooper and captain in the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and led soldiers in a combat deployment to Afghanistan in 2005–2006, according to multiple biographical profiles...
There were 23 Democratic governors in the United States in 2025, a partisan tally reported by multiple nonpartisan trackers (MultiState, Ballotpedia) . The year also saw two high‑profile 2025 gubernat...
Recent policy changes from 2023–2025 — especially the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) implementation and the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) provisions — tightened work requirements, changed non...
Governors’ authority to fill legislative vacancies in 2025 differs sharply by office and by state: governors can appoint interim U.S. Senators in most states (45–46 states, depending on the source) wh...
George Deukmejian was a member of the Republican Party during his decades-long career in California politics, serving as state assemblyman, state senator, attorney general and the 35th governor as a R...
In the last 25 years governors across multiple states have used clemency to pardon or commute sentences for people convicted of murder, most commonly citing rehabilitation, disproportionate or excessi...
Available reporting does not provide a single, nationwide count of SNAP recipients criminally prosecuted for fraud in calendar year 2022; federal summaries stress that prosecutions are initiated by US...
Since 2020 there have been multiple high-profile public objections by governors and adjutants general to federal control or federal uses of their National Guard forces, most prominently disputes over ...
Federal law gives the president statutory authority to federalize National Guard units under limited circumstances (invasion, rebellion, or inability of regular forces to enforce federal law) and thos...
The National Guard can serve domestically under several legal authorities: state activation by governors for state missions; federal activation under the Insurrection Act and related statutes (includi...
During the 2018–2019 federal government shutdown, , while reporting shows ; governors expressed concern and sought relief for affected residents but did not widely forfeit salaries . Reporting from Ja...
SNAP recipients have access to a federally authorized Employment and Training (E&T) system—implemented differently across states—that provides job search help, vocational training, education, and job-...
Governors have twice in recent history connected to U.S.-Mexico border or interior migrant operations: a wave of refusals and withdrawals in 2018 over family-separation policies, and ongoing gubernato...