Jeffries: Democrats will prioritize affordability and seek limits on unrestrained data-center expansion
Summary
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Democrats will form working groups on affordability issues and criticized Republican efforts to preempt local control over data centers as out of step with voters' concerns about rising utility costs.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats will prioritize affordability issues if they return to the majority, establishing working groups on housing, health care, child care, groceries and utilities. "We have to reverse the Medicaid cuts," he said, and the caucus will push to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Jeffries also sharply criticized Republican policy on data centers, saying GOP measures would preempt state and local authority and could "unleash data centers on the American people in an unfettered fashion." He said communities across urban and rural America have raised concerns about electricity and water costs tied to large data facilities.
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