Senator Ed Markey

So tonight, right up that hill in the United States Capitol, he's going to pretend that he really wants to help working Americans.

He's going to pretend that he does want to bring down those prices.

And we know that that is not what he wants, because just a few weeks ago, when we talked about the affordability crisis, he said that was a big hoax.

Do you remember?

He said that was a hoax.

Well, it's real.

And we all need to make sure that we put forward ideas to deal with it.

So in my view,

It's not enough that we hold the line against Donald Trump.

That must we must do.

But let's face it.

We also need to show the American people that we are willing to stand up and fight against big corporate special interests to the benefit of all of the American people.

Are we going to do that together?

Because we need to make sure that we unrig a tax code, a tax code that right now favors people who make money off of money over people who earn a check through their hard work.

Are we going to change that?

We need to make sure that all of you don't pay high electric bills so data centers that are owned by the richest corporations on the planet can make more money.

Are we going to make sure that your electricity bills don't go up for them?

And we need to make sure that big oil and the biggest polluters don't pass on the check to all of us because polluters should pay.

And we need to make sure that big tech doesn't write all the rules, that we write the rules and we make sure that AI doesn't strip Americans of the dignity of work.

Are we going to do that?