Congressman Rob Menendez

And I think she's done a really good job of articulating a clear message to New Jersey voters.

So she's made it clear that on day one of her administration, she's going to declare a state of emergency on the energy price hikes.

There's an immense amount of work that we have to do with our regional operator, PJM, the production that we have in New Jersey.

And we also have to look at how demand has changed.

You mentioned AI data centers.

It's good for New Jersey to be a leader on AI.

You need those data centers to do so, but they require an immense amount of energy.

There are ways, and we're looking at it in Congress.

It's one of the things that I'm doing on energy and commerce.

to think about how that increased energy demand, which could be 13% of all energy demand in the next several years, how that doesn't get pushed to our consumers, our residents.

So it's going to take an all-hands, whole-of-government approach, but she's made that a clear priority of hers, and that's a day one priority.

So I know it's something that she's looking forward to tackling as governor.

Well, I think you can take innovative ways, right?

Like I think, yes, traditionally money in, money out, right?

So if we need to spend to grow and build New Jersey, then we need to raise the revenue to do so.

But on something like mass transit and infrastructure, there are ways to do it where you look at the assets that NJ Transit has that are underutilized.

And if you can make better use of them, you can actually create revenue for the state without having to raise taxes, raise the levy.

So I think Mikey is going to have an innovative approach there.

I don't think she's just going to go and say we have to raise taxes because we have to pay for A, B, and C. I think she's going to look about how the state has underutilized assets, how to make better use of them to reduce the tax burden on New Jerseyans because it goes into the affordability crisis, whether it's energy, whether it's taxes.

These are what people are thinking about.