U.S. Lieutenant Governors

This budget provides $88 million for the preservation and conservation of historic, pristine, or significant properties across the State.

To address the high demand for skills, training, and knowledge, this budget once again provides $95 million for the South Carolina Workforce Industry Needs Scholarships (SC WINS) program at our State’s technical colleges.

This year’s budget marks the seventh consecutive year that the General Assembly has agreed with my proposal to freeze in-state college tuition.

This budget once again provides funds for the Education Scholarship Trust Fund.

This budget adopts my recommendation to expand the program in private providers where there are slots available to children whose annual family income is 300% or less of the federal poverty guidelines.

These law enforcement officers stand on the front lines to keep children safe so that they can learn and grow.

I have made raising teacher pay a priority, and working together, we have now fulfilled my pledge to pay every starting teacher at least $50,000.

The cuts to individual income taxes are substantial.

South Carolina is stronger, safer, and more prosperous than it was ten years ago, and people across the country have taken notice.

Please take this storm seriously and look out for one another.

Recovery is going to take time and we are here to provide all the support we can to help people.

Hawaiʻi island got hit the hardest and its people are dealing with severe impacts to their daily lives.

I think with good leadership, with our great people, the future is very bright.

I would’ve liked more, but we’ll take it, and we’ll squeeze it, and we’ll keep going.

That’s good news, because even when you count inflation, that’s gone up a whole lot.

Earmarks are not the way. That’s not the way to run a government.

The State of South Carolina must pay its bills, including debt owed to contractors and vendors who have completed work at the Scout Motors site.

This budget shows the great progress that South Carolina has made over this decade and demonstrates what is possible when we cooperate, communicate, and collaborate to serve the people of this great State.

The safety of our people remains our highest priority as we’re responding to these storm impacts.

Jewish New Yorkers have every right to worship openly, proudly, and without fear.

We have not had a hurricane make landfall in quite some time. So none of us really have experienced this really in, you know, the last couple of decades.

Please be safe. You definitely want to be home, do not be out on the roads.

I feel confident in the election system in this country, and I hope that politicians will be responsible.

When our neighbors are facing the threat of a hurricane, South Carolina stands ready to help, just as others have done for us in times of disaster.