Christian, Husband and Father, Former Mayor, Regulation Buster
Riverton, UT
Joined August 2019
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Unreal. One year after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah, nearly half of college students say violence is justified to stop “hate speech”—even while admitting the First Amendment protects it. That’s not education. That’s indoctrination. Free speech is non-negotiable. We will not let the same ideology that silences campuses control our cities, schools, or borders. Speak truth. Defend the Constitution. #FreeSpeech #CharlieKirk
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NYC’s budget just ballooned past $129 billion with no real savings. That’s what happens when ideology replaces results—taxpayers and small businesses get crushed by waste and higher costs. As Riverton’s former mayor I cut taxes and fees while serving residents; now as SBA Region 8 Advocate I’m focused on eliminating federal red tape so entrepreneurs can grow. Fiscal conservatism isn’t a slogan—it’s how we build prosperity. America works best when government gets out of the way.
The numbers don’t lie: ICE just hit historic records — 483k+ deportations and 491k arrests in FY2026. Border closed. Illegal aliens removed. That’s America First delivering.
We enforce the law, protect citizens, and get results. Utah and the West know what secure borders mean for housing affordability, wages, schools, and safety. No amnesty. No retreat.
#AmericaFirst #SecureTheBorder
Jim Jordan as House GOP leader is the right call. Freedom Caucus fighter, Trump ally, and someone who knows how to push back when Democrats push more government and investigations. After the midterms, we don’t moderate—we fight for American families, free speech, and results. Offense wins. #AmericaFirst
SCOTUS just greenlit the Big Bend border wall. 8-1. Only Jackson dissented.
This is what America First looks like: physical barriers, not lawsuits and sanctuary policies. Cartels don’t care about your environmental impact statement.
As a former mayor I know local communities feel the downstream costs of open borders—unaffordable housing, overcrowded schools, crime, strained services, fentanyl. Secure the border first. Everything else follows. #AmericaFirst #SecureTheBorder
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Every Republican legislature in America should immediately pass legislation to:
1) Ban sanctuary cities
2) Ban Ranked Choice Voting
3) Ban ballot harvesting
4) Require citizenship to vote
5) Require photo ID to vote
6) Ban the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
7) Ban foreign entities from buying property
8) Suspend any gas taxes
9) Institute school choice
10) Abolish property taxes
11) Open non-juror records to public inspection
12) Mandate secretaries of state to share complete voter registration rolls with DOJ
13) Mandate voter roll list maintenance
14) Offer rewards for convictions involving fraudulent use of Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, or other entitlements
15) Freeze rent increases
Republican governors would be wise to use this time to convene special sessions.
While Washington obsesses over staff changes and midterm autopsies, the real wins still happen when governments cut taxes, cut red tape, and let people build.
As mayor I cut property taxes and fees while improving services and police. At the SBA I’ve worked across six states to kill burdensome rules that crush small businesses.
Democrats will use their new majorities to raise taxes, expand regulation, and push identity over competence. The counter is proven: local competence + relentless deregulation. America First starts with households and Main Street that can actually afford to live and grow. That’s the fight.
Well done @UtahVote4Matt appreciate your service
I never had any desire or ambition in politics. I came in to protect my family from an out-of-control government agency that tried to bankrupt me. And we beat them down and protected others from that type of overreach. While in office I put my business and family life on hold to work on needed reforms for our state government.
I repealed the remaining COVID era rules and powers the state had granted itself and to public health authorities, partnering with them to start rebuilding public trust. I spearheaded much of the judiciary reforms that led to a fresh supreme court, more transparency, and a fairer system that protects all Utah from another overreaching branch. I ended archaic executive rules, reformed the governor's agencies’ powers and established new oversight metrics to rein in the Executive Branch. I modified legislative rules and constantly rattled the power structure of the House and Senate to bring the Legislative Branch back to its core mission and stop the power creep.
I also ran bills for my city, my neighbors and my other constituents. From fixing bad hiring practices from certain state agencies, to protecting personal data for individuals, to gun safety and food for hungry school kids, all without any tax increases. I passed legislation that helped WVC with the massive spike in unlicensed and uninsured motorists causing accidents, and this legislation will lead to lower insurance rates and safer streets. I was able to secure State funding for a new training facility in West Valley for law enforcement and school guardians.
I went full throttle every session, and wasted no time or effort. I have nothing but gratitude for my time serving and have zero regrets. I could not be more satisfied with what I have accomplished that will impact Utah in a good way for generations. My wife is also quite happy I get to return home and start our next adventure together.
There are some that would like to pretend I had other reasons or motives for being here, and have tried pathetically to smear me and my work. I am reminded of this quote:
“I pray that when I (leave office), all of hell will rejoice that I am out of the fight.”
From the screeching and profane messages sent my way, I can only say: Mission accomplished.
Stop calling what’s happening in France “protests” - these are organized riots from lawless thugs who want to destroy that country and its history.
Interesting take
After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed.
He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself.
So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends.
Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight.
Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant.
Here's the part almost nobody sees.
For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit.
Robots break that asymmetry.
When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible.
And that changes everything politically.
So there are two scenarios.
Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse.
Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built.
That's the Western renaissance.
The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice.
The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
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Same can be said about political leadership with elected officials. The concept of the “managers” of unelected bureaucrats needing to run things - never bought it
This is the single most insightful thing I have ever heard about the changing landscape of modern business. Haters are gonna hate, but there is a reason he is the most successful venture capitalist of all time. And no, it's not just luck.
Respect. 👊
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Getting rid of fraud saves hundreds of billions for taxpayers. This can’t happen fast enough. Kudos
Trent Staggs retweeted
Immigration policy must be driven by the present, not the past, and business leaders are too terrified of the left AND the right to acknowledge this.
Recent H1B discourse revolves around a longstanding immigration sleight-of-hand. H1B proponents point to exceptional people who came here decades ago as if they represent the current state of the program in the same way that advocates for low-skill/illegal immigration point to very favorable immigrant crime/welfare/education/etc statistics that do, in truth, have them beating native-born Americans on many fronts.
It is all a sham. The world that created those statistics, people, and businesses no longer exists. Brilliant but desperate Vietnamese fathers who fled communism have nothing in common with young men from Honduras, and the crime rates/economic acccomplishments/integration of the former should not be used to justify mass migration of the latter.
Nor should the accomplishments of people who managed to get an H1B visa in the 90s (when the program was capped to just 65,000 visas) be used to justify staffing agencies and tech companies using the program to replace American jobs for less money. The obvious abuse going on is politically suicidal and something that even the most ardent supporters of the visa should want to crack down on, no immigration program can possibly survive the obvious and widely known reality of what is going on. I am a longtime outspoken advocate for stealing the best people from other countries to make our own better, runaway abuse of existing programs robs the government of the worker trust required to do so.
Lots of people in the tech space know this. Even the dumb people are smart enough to see it. Nobody actually believes these are all incredible people with unique talents performing jobs no American can. Everyone knows the guy in Cubicle Bay 7 doing mediocre but functional web design for half the salary of his American peers is no savant and doesn't meet the statutory requirements for his H-1B visa.
Unfortunately, most people with power or profile are terrified that any public statement or acknowledgement will get them attacked by the right (You guys have been screwing over American workers for years with visa abuse, you damn hypocrite!) or the left (You are racist, sexist, misogynist, and sucking up to this fascist administration!). Or, more likely, both. I know too many tech execs in particular who feel trapped, like the only winning move is to stay silent.
JD is blowing the whole thing wide open by putting facts and stats front and center that nobody wants to engage with. Critics will talk about anything and everything else but these damning facts and this obvious truth, that H1B visas serve neither their original purpose, legal purpose, invented purpose, or the American people.
Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."
It’s never enough for the radicals
France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.
Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.
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Spot on
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
Trent Staggs retweeted
Western liberals imported the third world into France and other countries in the name of diversity and compassion. They ignored fundamental questions of assimilation and compatibility. They were told it would lead to this and they didn't listen.
I pray that France, a beautiful country of amazing people, will stop this madness before more of its landmarks burn.
And I hope Americans are paying attention. This is the future congressional Democrats seek for your country.
