SALT LAKE CITY — 2025 was supposed to be a big year for Gov. Spencer Cox.

Cox and his wife, Abby, got married and had kids young. As his friends were “backpacking across Europe,” Cox said he decided they would do that on the “back end, when we had some money and could stay in a hotel instead of a hostel.”

“This was the year we’ve been looking forward to,” Cox said during a discussion at the Ivory Housing Summit at the University of Utah Wednesday. “My daughter … just went to college, so we are empty nesters. And I’ll be darned if three months ago, two of my kids did boomerang back into our basement, and so now I’m not an empty nester. And that makes me unhappy with the economy, even though I have a 3% interest rate on my house, because it’s impacted me personally.”

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