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In another late-night action, Virginia's Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed bills aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs.
The development, which drew criticism from Democrats who control the General Assembly, did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of bills, he told ...
But in 2024, the first General Assembly session during Youngkin’s term in which Democrats had control of both the House and Senate, Youngkin racked up a historic 201 vetoes, vetoing more bills ...
In all, Youngkin signed 100 bills and vetoed seven on Thursday. He is on track to have vetoed the highest number of bills of any governor in Virginia's history.
This was the first veto of Youngkin's governorship. [128] Later in 2022, Youngkin signed a bill downscaling the Marcus alert system, which had been established by Northam about two years earlier in response to both the George Floyd protests of 2020 and the 2018 killing in Richmond of Marcus-David Peters.
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed bills that would have increased the minimum wage in Virginia to $15 per hour by 2026. What's next for wages? ... News. Science & Tech. Shopping.
Glenn Allen Youngkin (/ ˈ j ʌ ŋ k ɪ n / YUNG-kin; [1] born December 9, 1966) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 74th governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at the private-equity firm The Carlyle Group, where he became co-CEO in 2018.
Youngkin vetoed four abortion-related bills and a bill that would have provided paid family medical leave for Virginians late Friday evening. In a late-evening action, Youngkin vetoes abortion ...