Josh Shapiro

We're seeing more and more building tradespeople who are absolutely wonderful.

They're the backbone of our economy losing jobs in the energy sector because Donald Trump cut off a whole bunch of those clean energy

you know, investments that were being made here in Pennsylvania.

So what I'm seeing is a lot of buyer's remorse, a lot of people saying, you know what, this is not what I signed up for.

And I'm trying to speak to them and meet them where they are and, you know, not cast judgment on why they voted the way they did last time, but show them a better way, show them a more positive and hopeful future and show them that what we're doing here in Pennsylvania by actually bringing people together is working.

Yeah, we're seeing the average Pennsylvanian who gets their health care through the Affordable Care Act, we're seeing their premiums double, going from about $180 to about $360.

And we're just seeing really a tragic amount of people drop their health insurance as the calendar went from 2025 to 2026.

And folks had to re-up for the new year because of these rising prices.

This is really, really concerning.

You know, look, I said at the time when Republican members of Congress in Pennsylvania acted really as the deciding vote to pass that budget bill in D.C.

and viscerate and gut Medicaid and then not come back and expand the Affordable Care Act subsidies or extend, I should say, the Affordable Care Act subsidies.

I said that the state government would not be able to fill that gap, that this is a crisis of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans doing.

States don't have the dollars to be able to make this up.

And so it is so tragic for me to see more and more Pennsylvanians lose their health insurance, whether because of Medicaid cuts or because of an

unwillingness by Trump and the Republicans in D.C.

to extend these Affordable Care Act subsidies.

States can't make up the difference.

And more and more Americans are being hurt because the policy is coming out of D.C.

I mean, the federal government cut billions of dollars out of state budgets.

And states don't have the ability to make up that delta, to make up that difference.