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RICHMOND (LifeSiteNews) – Republican Glenn Youngkin formally became Governor of Virginia over the weekend, and marked his first day in office with no less than eleven executive actions aimed at fulfilling his campaign promises to conservatives on issues from education to COVID-19.
Youngkin, the former CEO of the private equity firm Carlyle Group, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe last November, riding a wave of discontent with COVID restrictions and leftist radicalism in public schools that also fueled a GOP takeover of the state House of Delegates.
Following his Saturday inauguration, Youngkin issued nine executive orders and two executive directives. “It’s Day One, and we are going to work just like we promised,” the governor said. “The important steps we are taking today begins the work of restoring excellence in education, making our communities safer, opening Virginia for business and reinvigorating job growth, and making government work for the people, and not the other way around.”
Highlights include banning the promotion of critical race theory (CRT), the doctrine that race is a “socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and
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