Do you have kind of a general position on the expansion of those here, even with a lot of people complaining about them?

Chris, thank you again for having me and good morning, everybody.

This is your Senator John Ossoff.

And here's my number one concern is making sure that small businesses and families aren't paying higher utility rates as a result of all this additional load that's coming on the grid from these projects.

I've opened an inquiry with the federal energy regulator.

asking the administration to explain how they're going to hold these big tech companies accountable to the public commitments that they've made, that it won't be ratepayers, meaning it won't be ordinary folks, households, and small businesses who are facing sky-high utility bills as a result of the huge energy demand from these massive projects.

I mean, the cost of living crisis right now is only worsening in part as a result of the war in the Middle East, in part as a result of tariffs in part as a result of bad health care policy.

No Lead in Toys Act is one of them that would seem sort of common sense, right? But you're unsatisfied with the way this is tested.

your reaction to that?

Let's just...

Put aside the notion that the president has any power to declare sitting U.S. senators illegitimate.

Yeah, he does not.

But here's what's amazing to me.

In Georgia, people are furious at this administration and not just Democrats because it's so clear the president doesn't care about the economic pain Americans are feeling.

And he cares about himself lining his own pockets, building a ballroom.

after having campaigned on this idea that he was going to focus on regular issues that impact Americans like rent and housing and groceries, was handed on a silver platter, a housing bill, that his own party had advanced, bipartisan, but his own party had participated in advancing that bill, refused to sign it because he wanted to instead use it as a hostage to again try and pass a law that would ultimately just be a federal takeover of elections?

Can you talk about that and can you define that and what that means?

I think it means that we will be a team focused on delivering a positive vision for our state's future and how good state government and good federal policy can work together to serve the state's needs.

What do I mean by that specifically? You know, we have lost in the last 20 years 21 hospitals in the state of Georgia, in large part because our state government has refused to expand Medicaid.

And what does it mean to expand Medicaid? It means that the state has refused to accept federal resources that would help fund our hospitals and get people health insurance.

We're paying the same federal taxes as people in every other state.

We're just not accepting the benefit.

from the federal government to fund our hospitals and help people afford health insurance.

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