Maura Healey

And we're doing a lot with battery storage.

So

We're going to continue to bring online as much energy as possible.

I want Massachusetts and the Northeast to be energy independent and not to be subject to whatever is happening elsewhere with respect to the Middle East and oil supply, for example.

That's what I'm going to continue to focus on.

And the other cost driver for Americans right now is health care.

And, you know, I'm the first governor in our state to cut

deductibles and copays.

I got rid of prior authorizations recently so that if you're somebody with diabetes, you shouldn't have to get permission from your insurance company to get your insulin.

We're working every day to find ways to get healthcare coverage in the wake of the president cutting a trillion dollars from healthcare in this country.

Two months ago, I had to make sure that because of Donald Trump taking away those healthcare subsidies, right?

and letting those expire, we came forward and I found some funds to make sure that 300,000 Massachusetts households were able to keep their healthcare coverage.

So, you know, it's a game of both offense and defense right now with this administration that continues to make life more unaffordable, more expensive for people, create a tremendous amount of uncertainty.

I can also tell you this, David, and, you know, I know you spent time in Massachusetts,

Our economy here, our ecosystem is an innovation-driven and a knowledge-driven ecosystem.

We've got life sciences and biotech and technology and tremendous amounts of the defense industry is powered actually out of innovations and development right here.

One in 10 R&D jobs in this country are in Massachusetts.

And Trump is basically giving it away to China right now by defunding science and research

and allowing other countries to come in and say to our scientists and entrepreneurs and researchers, hey, come to our country and, you know, you can innovate and develop and also socialize new technologies.

That's just stupid for American competitiveness.