Tate Reeves: “When it comes to keeping Mississippians safe, Governor Reeves has said that nothing is off the table.”

There is sadly no simple way for state government to just step in and pay the hundreds of millions of dollars in harm that this shutdown by the Washington Democrats is causing.

I don’t believe that an exception for rape will actually make it through the Mississippi legislature and make it to my desk.

Because what’s going to happen when you raise the bar, when you raise the level of expectations, what’s happened in Mississippi is exactly what’s going to happen in Oklahoma.

Until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. It means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires to reliably flush toilets and to meet other critical needs.