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Joe Lombardo: “We're not a border state.”

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Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding

Published March 25, 2025 | Video Starts at 25:28

But let me clarify this, though. I totally respect and I support what Donald Trump's trying to do in the immigration space. One is We're not a border state. Right. If there was a request by the federal government with federal reimbursement to send our National Guard down there, I'm more than happy to do that. Okay. (25:28–25:30)

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Asserts that Nevada is not a border state.

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“The state of Nevada is encumbered by the federal ownership of land within our borders to the tune of 80 to 85%.”
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“We have return credits on our water availability, you know, on water storage, and more so than any other participating state in the Colorado…”
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“We have the most jobs available and we've had the highest job increase availability in the nation.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 19:14-19:22
“The Access and Affordability Housing Act [is] to address the housing shortage that we're experiencing here in the state of Nevada.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 00:03-00:07
“Post Covid a lot of builders left [the affordable housing] space because it doesn't pencil out.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 01:34-01:39
“The laws associated to DUI violations were woefully...sufficient.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 03:57-04:09
“There's a request to elevate fatal accident DUI with implied intent, another implied malice...to second degree murder with implied malice.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 04:54-05:05
“There should be an increase upon the penalties associated with [repeat DUI offenses].”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 05:54-05:58
“There's got to be a presumptive level of determining what is considered impaired and what is not considered impaired [for marijuana].”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 06:00-06:11
“I have increased [state police] pay significantly to where we have actually showed a positive increase in troops.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 07:33-07:42
“Since 2017, we have... the first time we've ever had a positive attrition versus hiring percentage or ratio to the tune of 4%.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 07:54-08:07
“All the state police are having problems with hiring.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 08:17-08:20
“Probably not across the board for the entire state because we're in a reclassification mode.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 08:42-08:49
“School choice is all encompassing. It's charter schools. It's different education opportunities.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 09:14-09:22
“We have opportunity scholarships where there are tax exempt scholarships.”
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“There was $250 million that were one shots. And my proposal was to put that in its permanency.”
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“We have 800,000 lives in the state of Nevada involved in [Medicaid and Medicare].”
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“We have heard from the Trump administration that it was not inclusive of the adjustments under health services.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 13:00-13:07
“The previous session we had just an ancillary introduction of the movie tax credit bill.”
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“What I was presented back then, I couldn't live with. It was too much of a draw or an encumbrance upon the state's general fund.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 14:18-14:28
“Rent control does not work. It does not work in the long term.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 16:06-16:11
“Under my housing bill, we have an endowment $250 million that we're going to put through six different programs.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 16:55-17:02
“Through the Governor's Office of Economic Development, [I have worked] to incentivize the right companies to come into the state of Nevada.”
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“We operated under the 287 program. It was a mutual agreement, an MOU that we signed with the ICE officials.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 20:41-20:50
“The ninth Circuit changed the agreement in the fact that we couldn't use the federal database [to determine people's status].”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 21:14-21:21
“Sheriff McMahel got elected and he continued the same practice [of notifying ICE and attempting to remove individuals].”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 21:59-22:06
“Local law enforcement official can't arrest for a federal immigration violation.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 22:23-22:28
“The Attorney General's recommended policy was lack of cooperation with federal agencies.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 23:40-24:00
“There isn't enough resources or federal officers located in the state of Nevada to increase upon our effort.”
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“If there was a request by the federal government with federal reimbursement to send our National Guard down there, I'm more than happy to do…”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 25:30-25:37
“You got to change your recruiting policies and make sure you get more aggressive.”
Governor Joe Lombardo Discusses Nevada Housing, DUI Legislation, and Education Funding | Uploaded March 25, 2025 | 26:22-26:27
“There are programs in place that are very successful programs, like joining forces.”
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