Governor Gina Raimondo is responding to Monday statehouse demonstration, where more than 100 peopled called for state lawmakers to pledge action against some of the President-elect’s campaign promises. The group known as “Resist Hate RI” delivered a letter Raimondo.
In the letter, the progressive group demands that the Governor, Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, and House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, protect rights they see as threatened by Donald Trump’s administration. Governor Raimondo responded with a lengthy post on social media.
She promised to do what she can at the state level to ensure access to healthcare and legal abortions. On immigration Raimondo wrote she would quote “stand up for immigrant neighbors.”
Trump has promised to repeal the federal health care overhaul but has not said what may replace it. He has also promised to nominate a Supreme Court Justice opposed to abortion. And he has discussed rolling back an executive order that protects immigrants without documentation who were brought to this country as children.
