What WA Gov. Bob Ferguson said, and left unsaid, in his State of the State address

By: Jerry Cornfield

Outlets: Washington State Standard

Published: January 14, 2026

Words: 1,196

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday celebrated the “heart and spirit” in Washington communities ravaged by flooding in December, then pumped up fellow Democrats with calls for taxing millionaires and standing up to federal immigration agents whose actions he deemed “unjust.”

In his second address to the Legislature, Ferguson avoided the sticky topic of a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall. He focused instead on the lives upended by the storms and those on the front lines of the …

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