KDP Statement on Democratic Wins of 2025

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Today, the Kentucky Democratic Party is looking back on 2025, celebrating Democratic achievements that improved life for all Kentuckians by countering the Republican Party’s growing cost-of-living crisis, fueled by bank-breaking tariffs, farm-killing trade wars and a federal budget on track to close 35 rural Kentucky hospitals and strip health insurance from millions of people nationwide.

In stark contrast, Kentucky Democrats worked to build a Commonwealth where all Kentuckians can access quality health care, education, good-paying jobs and a chance at a better life. Highlights include:

• Governor Beshear joining forces with other states to take Trump to court for illegally taking millions of dollars in promised funding from Kentucky, winning back:
  
  • $96 million taken from Kentucky schools
  • $21 million taken from homelessness prevention
  • $21 million taken from disaster rebuilding
  • $9 million taken from AmeriCorps public service projects
• Restoring SNAP funding after President Trump’s illegal attempt to shut down food assistance for the first time in U.S. history, as well as holding dozens of food drives across the state to support families left without food
• Traveling more than 1,800 miles in the KDP’s Rural Listening Tour to connect with rural families losing health care and jobs to the GOP’s billionaire-first policies
• Holding a sold-out state convention in Owensboro, the KDP’s largest since 2012
• Overperforming in Kentucky State Senate District 37’s special election by 13 points, electing Gary Clemons, the first union president to serve in the General Assembly
• Training more than 1,000 Democrats at Growing the Blue Dot sessions and recruiting more than 100 candidates for 2026 elections