Congressman Rob Menendez
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Well, before that, they had the largest cut to SNAP in the program's history.
So the pain has to stop because we see it every day when we're out with our constituents.
That's what Democrats have been fighting for.
The center of it has been health care.
We're going to continue to fight for that.
And Republicans look like they're interested in having a conversation specifically on the ACA.
And I hope we get to that conversation, get the government back open.
Listen, we're in the triple minority, right?
And so we've drawn a line in the sand that for the American people, we have to deliver more affordable health care.
That message has resonated with people.
When I'm out, people say, hold the line.
Keep fighting for us.
Because if we do nothing, we will not be able to afford our health care, our housing, our prescription drugs.
That's what Democrats are fighting for.
And they're happy to see us do so.
And they are in this fight with us.
So, I mean, I think he got an immense amount right on moving the state forward on a lot of things that were responsive to what was happening in the first Trump administration, codifying reproductive health care here in New Jersey.
He's done an immense amount to drive the economy here from being an AI, a leader on AI, to tech, to film studios.
So he's done a lot to grow New Jersey, grow New Jersey's profile.
You know, I think on the energy front, I think we could have diversified our approach a little bit more to not think so much of into offshore wind, but to really maximize solar, to look at nuclear, to look at fusion.