House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, R-Bristow, issued the following statement in response to the Governor’s State of the State address: “I look forward to working with Governor Stitt and Pro Tem Paxton to enact many of the priorities the governor discussed in the State of the State speech.

We all agree in wanting Oklahoma taxpayers to keep as much of their hardearned money as possible while being as prepared as possible for future budget uncertainty. We will continue budget discussions in earnest once we have final FY26 numbers from the Board of Equalization.

Finding government efficiencies with an Oklahoma version of DOGE is a shared priority and will be critical as we seek to tighten our belt fiscally this year. We are all on the same page that we need to ban cell phones in schools with local implementation and, as a father of young kids myself, I applaud the governor’s continued focus on fatherhood and building up Oklahoma families.

We have a lot of challenges ahead, but we are united in wanting to make Oklahoma better for future generations. That work officially begins today.”