Senator war on Project 2025 is bad news for America and virtually no one no one is left unscathed as my colleagues have already demonstrated from veterans to preschoolers to women no one is left unscathed by this there's a reason why Donald Trump is running from Project 2 he knows this bad news the fact that they're running away from it tells you everything you need to know who in the world wants to get rid of Head Start I know that Senator stab and I talked about education but Head Start works I know it because I've seen it in the communities where I've served for decades as a pastor and I know it because I'm a head start Alum I know the difference that this program makes for poor children and their act access to education the ways in which it stir that early intellectual curiosity and Imagination and puts you on a path towards a prosperous and productive life uh who wants to come after uh the $35 cap on insulin so on a whole range of issues this is bad news but in every corner of Georgia one of the top issues that I hear about is the housing affordability and availability crisis according to the National low-income housing Coalition in Georgia there's an estimated Statewide shortage of 200,000 rental homes that are affordable and available for low-income rent renters shortage of 200,000 and Industry research has found that from 2023 to 2024 Georgia lost 7.5% of its housing inventory and one of the biggest decreases in the nation I sit on the banking Housing and Urban Affairs committee in this crisis is something that we've been working on uh for quite some time uh we've tried to address uh this crisis to lower housing costs on working people to help firsttime American buyers purchase a home of their own and strengthen transparency in our rental and housing markets to help regular people put a roof over their heads housing is dignity housing is security housing is safety so let's be clear project 2025 which was written by former president Trump's friends and allies would not just kill these efforts to make it easier for Americans to obtain their peace of the American dream through home ownership or to find safe affordable housing Washington Republicans project 2025 would increase housing costs on working families and undermine the work necessary to expand access to Affordable able renting rental and Home Ownership opportunities across the country let me list just a few specific examples project 2025 calls for privatizing Fanny May and Freddy May and limiting Americans access to Federal Mortgage programs who does that serve this was Spike mortgage prices and undermine access to the fixed rate 30-year mortgage so many Americans have used to afford their homes and build generational wealth these moves would make it more expensive and much harder for Americans to purchase and to own their own home project 2025 would prohibit the federal housing investments we're fighting for right now that would expand the housing Supply and thereby lowering housing costs everyone who's looked at this knows that we've got one of the things we've got to do is address supply project 2025 would prevent the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD from protecting homeowners from housing discrimination including discrimination in property appraisals and I know that I don't have to remind uh this group of journalists uh that have been reporting on this issue of the ways in which in recent years uh black homeowners and consumers of color are economically disadvantaged uh by bigoted practices in our housing markets in general and the appraisal system uh in particular project 2025 would eliminate the national flood insurance program and other initiatives and protections that help lower utility costs and protect houses houses from extreme weather events just as we're seeing more of these natural disasters putting people's homes in Jeopardy as a Coastal Georgia native I can tell you that this would put countless homes down in Savannah Georgia and other coastal areas at risk and it would increase cost for families who have to repair and rebuild after Extreme weather events which we are see we are seeing more and more this is all just a tip of the spear but the bottom line is this we're trying to make housing more affordable for more Americans and make it easier for Americans to find or purchase a home while project 2025 would raise your housing costs project 2025 is bad news for housing bad news for veterans bad news for Head Start bad news for seniors who are trying to afford uh prescription drugs almost no one is left unscathed uh we need a president who will Center the people thank you thank my colleagues for those great