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Patrick Morrisey: “We need to invest in infrastructure and we are.”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia

Published February 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 14:22

Lot of times when we have a surplus. Right now we have a surplus. Right. A lot of times people just want to Spend it on wasteful items. We can't let that happen. Yes, We need to invest in infrastructure and we are. yes, we need to invest in our kids and our education. And we are, yes, yes. We need to invest in our technical colleges and our universities to produce the kind of economic environment that's needed. (14:22–14:26)

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Asserts that the state is currently investing in infrastructure.

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“We were able to get an unprecedented grant from the Trump administration to build out over 73,000 locations for unserved areas.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 03:02-03:14
“Since October, we've announced over six and a half billion dollars of private sector investment into West Virginia.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 07:55-08:05
“For that six and a half billion dollars of investment, do you know how much governmental money promises went into that? $1 million.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 09:25-09:33
“An across the board income tax cut and a 10% would be a good place to be.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 03:54-04:00
“We're expecting over the next few years we're going to have a need for 15 to 20,000 new workers in the contractor field.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 06:55-07:04
“With the projected job total in the next few years, 7,000 new jobs.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 08:05-08:11
“That's an opportunity for another billion dollars that comes in from President Trump.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 08:29-08:34
“There's going to be a new gas plant that's coming in...that alone is going to cause a need...for over 3,200 new workers.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 09:54-10:07
“Our budget that we submitted puts 100 million of new money into bridges and to roads.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 12:13-12:21
“We've put money into the airport in Clarksburg, we're putting money into other airports.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 12:41-12:48
“Ohio and Kentucky have decided they're going to get out in front of West Virginia...trying to get their income taxes lower than West…”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 13:19-13:30
“We need to invest in our technical colleges and our universities.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 14:31-14:36
“Having a 10% across the board income tax [cut], there's no better way [to be more competitive with other states].”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 14:47-14:51
“We asked for a 10% across the board income tax cut and we did all the heavy lifting for 5%.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 16:27-16:34
“We sold off some of the government run health care facilities that were causing huge problems for the state.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 17:45-17:53
“We made changes to PEIA to try to make it more affordable.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 18:13-18:18
“We have a 3% increase [in PEIA] and we're following that up with the pay raise to help our state workers.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 18:22-18:29
“We have a chance to do something really big. President Trump started this.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 19:52-19:58
“We can conform our tax code to the permanent provisions that President Trump laid out.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 20:11-20:18
“I mentioned the six and a half billion of private sector investment.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 20:55-20:59
“We've been very fiscally responsible.”
Gov. Patrick Morrisey Holds Press Briefing About New Tax Cuts For West Virginia | Uploaded February 10, 2026 | 21:17-21:21
“We can afford this.”
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