Legislative update: Partisan issues come up more and more as country divides

Legislative update: Partisan issues come up more and more as country divides

- Isabella Schreck

Welcome to The Portager’s legislative round-up, which will regularly track what Portage County lawmakers are doing in Washington and in Columbus.

As tensions have begun to rise across the country following the inauguration of President Donald Trump, several Portage County senators and representatives have started to double down on partisan values, with the county’s sole Democrat against some of Trump’s initiatives and many of the Republican majority in support of the new president. 

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