Youngkin: McAuliffe plans could cost each Virginia family $5,400

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is running to be the next governor of the commonwealth, has suggested a variety of policy changes that could cost the average Virginia family about $5,400, according to McAuliffe’s opponent, Republican Glenn Youngkin.

Youngkin’s campaign arrived at the figure based on a report published by the free-market Thomas Jefferson Institute, which analyzed McAuliffe’s plans for education, economics, entrepreneurship, COVID-19 and health care. It concluded Virginia’s operating budget spending would increase by more than $8.3 billion, its general fund would increase by more than $7.6 billion and its non-general fund would increase by more than $678,000.