Reynolds blocked Miller from including Iowa in a legal challenge to the Trump administration's repeal of the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era regulation that restricted emissions of greenhouses gases (such as carbon) to counteract climate change. Reynolds blocked two-thirds of requests from Democratic state Attorney General Tom Miller to join multi-state lawsuits challenging Trump administration policies or to submit amicus briefs in such suits among the vetoed requests were proposals to challenge Trump policies related to immigration, asylum, abortion, birth control, environmental deregulation, gun policy, and LGBT rights. Reynolds is a staunch supporter of Donald Trump. Hodges (2015), Reynolds described same-sex marriage as a "settled" issue and said that she did not consider herself obligated to follow the Iowa Republican Party platform provision against same-sex marriage.
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Her proposed sales-tax increase, however, was largely opposed by state legislators.
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Reynolds' proposed restructuring of the state tax code would represent a further reduction in income taxes, going beyond 2018 legislation (passed by Republicans in the state legislature and signed into law by Reynolds) that was the largest income tax cut in Iowa history. In 2020, Reynolds proposed a 1-cent increase in the state sales tax (bringing it to 8 cents), offset by a phrased reduction in the state income tax, including a cut in the tax rate for the top income bracket, from 9% to 5.5%. In 2018, Reynolds proposed cutting $10 million from the Medicaid program which cares for eligible low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and people with disabilities. An opinion from the Attorney General of Iowa indicated that "an individual promoted from lieutenant governor to governor, as was Reynolds, not have the authority to appoint a new lieutenant governor." On May 25, 2017, Reynolds announced that Iowa Public Defender Adam Gregg would serve as acting lieutenant governor to avoid litigation, the Reynolds administration stated that Gregg " not hold the official position of lieutenant governor" and would not succeed Reynolds in the event of her inability to serve as governor. Reports indicated that Reynolds's selection of a lieutenant governor could be challenged in the Iowa Supreme Court. Reynolds's elevation to the governorship created a vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. Reynolds is the first female Governor of Iowa. On May 24, 2017, Reynolds became governor of Iowa upon the resignation of Governor Terry Branstad, who stepped down to become the new United States Ambassador to China. Reynolds was elected Chair of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA) in July 2015. Reynolds co-chaired the Governor's Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Advisory Council, Iowa Partnership for Economic Progress board, and the Military Children Education Coalition and was also Branstad's representative on the board of the Iowa State Fair. Reynolds was sworn in as lieutenant governor of Iowa on January 14, 2011. Reynolds resigned from her Senate seat on Novembefore taking office as lieutenant governor. On November 2, 2010, the Branstad/Reynolds ticket won the general election. The next day, she received the Republican nomination from the 2010 Republican State Convention. On June 25, 2010, Republican gubernatorial nominee Terry Branstad publicly proposed Reynolds to be his running mate as the lieutenant governor candidate. Branstad and Reynolds after the Cedar River floods of 2016