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Eliminate the state's 4.5% sales tax on groceries, which he framed as fulfilling a promise and passing the largest single-year tax cut in state history. (He signed HB 1955 into law in February 2024.)

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 95%

Adversarial re-check confirms the prior rating. All three cited sources were independently fetched, are live, and are quoted accurately. (1) The Oklahoma Legislature's own bill record for HB 1955 (2024 session) confirms the measure — titled 'Revenue and taxation; sales tax; groceries; definitions; zero rate; local sales tax; effective date; emergency' — passed the House 88-7 and the Senate 42-2 and was 'signed by Governor on February 27, 2024.' (2) The Oklahoma Tax Commission's own guidance page states 'Effective August 29, 2024, the sale of "food and food ingredients" and certain "prepared food" will be exempt from state sales and use tax,' i.e. the 4.5% state rate on groceries is zeroed out and IN FORCE, not merely enacted-on-paper. (3) Stitt's newsroom release records his statement claiming the accomplishment. I specifically tested the two arguments that would push this off FULL and both fail: (a) 'PARTIAL because groceries are still taxed' — the Tax Commission confirms local city/county sales taxes still apply, but the promise text is expressly scoped to 'the state's 4.5% sales tax,' which is exactly and entirely what was repealed; downgrading for taxes the promise never covered would be moving the goalposts. (b) 'CHAMPIONED rather than FULL' — CHAMPIONED is for leadership on something that did not land; here the law was enacted, took effect, and is operative, so the higher rung applies. Party-neutrality test: a Democratic governor who signed a bill repealing exactly the tax he pledged to repeal, with the repeal live and verifiable in the state tax agency's own guidance, would receive FULL under this same standard. I did NOT carry forward the prior rationale's claim that the bill 'barred local rate increases from applying to food' — the bill title references 'local sales tax' but I did not verify the substance of that provision, and it is not load-bearing for the outcome. Confidence held at 0.95 rather than 1.0 only because the state repeal coexists with continuing local grocery taxes, which leaves a narrow interpretive question if a reader understood the pledge more broadly than its stated text.

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