'We would love for people to stay in California instead of coming as refugees to Utah.'
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is going a different route, telling reporters Friday he wants prospective transplants to"stay in California," because there isn't housing for them.
The topic arose when Cox, a Republican, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, met with President Joe Biden and other governors at the White House on Friday. Cox and Murphy, who lead the National Governors Association together, spoke to reporters outside and took questions, the first of which was about what the two states are doing to attract new residents.
After Murphy said,"New Jersey has never been hotter," and plugged recent property tax cuts, Cox told people to stay away. "We’re having the opposite problem, this last census confirmed that Utah was the fastest-growing state over the past 10 years," Cox said."So our biggest problems are more growth related. We would love for people to stay in California instead of coming as refugees to Utah. So we’re always trying to figure that out. Our biggest problem right now is housing and water, those two issues.
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