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Governor of Oregon since 2021
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...
Tina Kotek’s 2023–2025 budgets and her 2025–2027 proposals materially changed short‑term ODOT cashflows and prompted emergency fixes: her administration and allies injected at least $19 million into t...
Gov. Tina Kotek signed House Bill 3991 — a roughly $4.3 billion, 10-year transportation package that raises gas taxes, vehicle fees and transit payroll taxes — to fill roughly a $300 million ODOT shor...
Tina Kotek made transportation a high fiscal priority during the 2023–25 cycle by repeatedly moving to close a roughly $300–$354 million shortfall at the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), pr...
Available reporting shows Gov. Tina Kotek did not "cut" ODOT’s funding in the sense of unilateral reductions; rather, a larger transportation funding package failed in the regular 2025 legislative ses...
Available reporting shows Governor Tina Kotek did not “take away” funding from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT); rather, she repeatedly pushed for new revenue and signed a September stop...
Available reporting shows Gov. Tina Kotek did not cut ODOT’s budget; instead she pushed a stopgap transportation funding package (House Bill 3991) to avert layoffs and restored much short‑term funding...
Available reporting shows Governor Tina Kotek repeatedly warned that without new revenue the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) faced hundreds of layoffs and service cuts, and she used executi...
The core claim is that President Trump authorized federal troops to Portland; supporters frame this as protecting federal facilities, while Oregon leaders call the move unnecessary and illegal. A clos...
President Trump’s “urban warfare” and troop-deployment comments prompted a range of public criticisms from state and local officials, Democratic federal lawmakers, and at least implied unease from mil...