Alabama is proving that Republican pro-growth policies work.
Across our state, new factories are being built, existing industries are expanding, our port is breaking records, and thousands of Alabamians are finding opportunities in manufacturing, defense, aerospace, shipbuilding, and other skilled careers. Republican leadership has helped create this momentum by cutting unnecessary regulation, investing in infrastructure and workforce development, and making Alabama a place where businesses want to invest.
Alabama’s economy is on the move because Republican leadership has kept taxes low, cut unnecessary regulation, invested in infrastructure and workforce training, and prioritized bringing manufacturing and high-skill jobs home.
Coach Tommy Tuberville has been a key part of that success in the U.S. Senate, and as our next Governor he will accelerate it. The results are already visible across the state, and the contrast with Democratic approaches—higher taxes, more regulation, and slower growth—is clear.
Look at the numbers under Republican stewardship. In 2025 alone, Alabama announced a record $14.6 billion in economic development projects with nearly 9,400 new job commitments.
Over recent years the total investment has topped $69–70 billion and more than 100,000 jobs. We remain a national leader in auto exports, have delivered substantial tax relief (including cutting the grocery tax that Democrats left untouched for generations), and rank near the top for skilled-trades employment growth in the Southeast. Unemployment has stayed low while prime-age workforce participation has risen.
That is what pro-growth Republican policies produce.
Specific projects illustrate the point. Eli Lilly chose Huntsville for a more than $6 billion advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing campus—the largest single private investment in state history—creating about 450 high-paying permanent jobs (average salaries well above $100,000) plus thousands of construction jobs.
In northwest Alabama, the Hadrian advanced manufacturing facility in the Muscle Shoals/Cherokee area is transforming a former railcar plant into a major producer of submarine components for the Navy’s Virginia- and Columbia-class programs.
Backed by a roughly $2.4 billion public-private investment and supported through Republican-led legislation including the One Big Beautiful Bill, it is expected to deliver up to 1,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs. U.S. Space Command’s return to Huntsville and the FBI’s expanding presence at Redstone Arsenal further solidify North Alabama’s role in defense, space, and cybersecurity.
On the Gulf Coast—where I have focused much of my work as Chairman of the House Ports and Waterways Committee—the Port of Mobile is delivering. After the channel was deepened, the Alabama Port Authority posted record revenue of about $245 million in fiscal 2026, up more than 20%.
The channel now handles larger vessels, supports hundreds of thousands of jobs statewide, and generates billions in economic activity. Austal USA’s roughly $750 million expansions in Mobile are adding capacity for submarine modules and surface ships, creating around 2,000 jobs in skilled trades such as welding, ship fitting, and electrical work. These are the kinds of America-First shipbuilding and maritime opportunities Coach Tuberville has consistently fought to bring them to Alabama.
Coach Tuberville understands that landing the projects is only half the job; we must train the workers.
Drawing on his decades as a coach and educator, he has made workforce development a centerpiece: expanding trade schools and junior-college pathways, emphasizing skills that lead directly to employment, and reducing the number of Alabamians sitting on the sidelines.
He has pushed for lower taxes so families and businesses keep more of what they earn, and he has worked to cut waste so growth can pay for itself. His close alignment the America First agenda—tariffs and incentives that favor domestic manufacturing, tax relief and aggressive recruitment of industry—positions Alabama to capture more of the reshoring wave.
Democrats have often responded to economic challenges with higher spending, expanded benefits that discourage work, and heavier regulation. Those approaches have not produced the sustained manufacturing resurgence or record investment we are seeing.
Alabama Republicans have chosen the opposite path: grow the private sector, train people for real jobs, keep taxes competitive, and invest in ports, roads, waterways, and energy infrastructure that businesses need.
Coach Tuberville has already helped deliver major wins for Alabama from the Senate.
As governor, with a Republican legislature and the strong ties he maintains in Washington, he will be the state’s chief recruiter and workforce champion.
The result will be more high-quality jobs in every corner of Alabama—from Huntsville’s aerospace and biopharma corridor to the Shoals’ defense manufacturing, Birmingham’s professional services, and Mobile’s expanding port and shipyards. That is the Republican record and the Coach Tuberville plan.
It is the best path for Alabama’s economy and for creating the jobs our people deserve.
Chip Brown represents the 105th District in the Alabama House of Representatives and is Chairman of the House Committee on Ports, Waterways, and Intermodal Transit.
