Tax cuts, tribal relations dominate Stitt's State of the State address

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt implored lawmakers to send him tax cuts and said the continuing fallout from the McGirt decision’s effect on tribal-state relations risks state unity, an assertion that left representatives of many of the state’s tribes sitting stone-faced in the gallery.

Stitt, in his sixth State of the State speech at the Oklahoma Capitol, struck a hopeful tone about the state’s future. He evoked President Ronald Reagan several times during the 41-minute speech, saying people are looking to Oklahoma as an example of Pilgrim John Withrop’s “shining city on a hill.”

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