By Crosscut
January 10, 2023
The party has used its legislative majorities year after year to check off a lot of its wish list. What now?
When the Washington state legislative session started on Monday, January 9, Democrats were in the driver’s seat.
The party currently controls both houses and the governorship, making it one of 16 states where Democrats have achieved a so-called state government trifecta.
It’s a familiar position for the party, which has held the trifecta since 2018.
In that time, Democrats have crossed a number of items off their legislative wish list, including most recently the passage of a capital-gains tax, gun laws and a carbon cap-and-trade law.
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