This is why it's dumb for people to treat their political party as their "identity".
if it doesn't fit the gop party narrative, you can't have it.
Missouri governor drops voter-approved Medicaid expansion
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/p...d-medicaid-expansion
Parson had opposed Medicaid expansion at the ballot box, but he said he would uphold the will of voters and so included $1.9 billion in federal and state funding for it in the budget he proposed to lawmakers earlier this year.
Mississippi justices toss voter-backed marijuana initiative
https://apnews.com/article/ms-...ed8a04849f62c86c707e
https://www.mississippifreepre...-ballot-initiatives/
The Mississippi Supreme Court today killed the medical-marijuana program that 68% of Mississippi voters approved in 2020, and with it, the state’s entire ballot-initiative process. The ruling means that voter-driven efforts to adopt early voting and expand Medicaid in the state are also now dead.