A slim majority of Utahns approve of the Legislature's performance but are split over whether lawmakers or the governor has the most influence in the state, according to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll.
with legislative leaders for a $400 million tax cut package that included a provision giving pregnant women a double tax exemption for their children in the year they're born.Much of what lawmakers did last session satisfied Sharla Birschbach, including the tax cut. She said she also appreciated lawmakers further limiting abortions and agreed transgender youth should wait for medical interventions.
"I feel like there's a lot of people moving in from other states," she said, bringing a less conservative outlook to Utah. "I think they tend to influence that a little bit."Paul Sanchez, 43, a Democratic financial consultant from South Salt Lake who changed his party affiliation to Republican back in 2020 to vote in the GOP gubernatorial primary, said he somewhat disapproves of the Legislature's performance.
Last year's override of Cox's veto on transgender athlete participation in girls sports is proof, Sanchez said, "You're going to have to say the Legislature for sure has the most power in how the state is run." "It's really hard when you ask general questions about general organizations. I think specifically, each legislator has a higher approval rating with their constituency because they put a name and a face to the situation," Adams said.
"Our Founding Fathers put together what I think is a balanced process. There's an executive branch and a legislative branch and I think we work very closely together," he said, adding that unlike last year, Cox did not veto any legislation.
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