WCNC: “Cooper focused on rising costs, blasting the tariffs, the rising costs of the Iran War and health care premiums that he says are going through the roof.”
RALEIGH — Yesterday, Roy Cooper continued his “Make Stuff Cost Less” tour, holding an event in Concord to highlight how he will continue his work in the U.S. Senate to bring down skyrocketing costs and make life more affordable for working North Carolinians.
WCNC: Roy Cooper Holds Make Stuff Cost Less Event in Concord
- Anchor: “Cooper focused on rising costs, blasting the tariffs, the rising costs of the Iran War and health care premiums that he says are going through the roof.”
- Roy Cooper: “And we have an administration, now that promised – promised – that this would be the day one focus. Not only has it not been, but everything coming out of Washington is making it so much worse.”
WFAE: Roy Cooper Holds Make Stuff Cost Less Event in Concord
- Reporter: “Cooper focused on rising energy and utility bills and attacked his Republican opponent, Michael Whatley, for his previous work as vice president of a lobbying group representing major oil, gas, and utility companies.”
- Roy Cooper: “As he hears Duke Energy say, ‘We’re going to raise your rates 18 percent, and I’m jumping up and down and saying, ‘no’ […] when he gets asked about it, he says nothing.”
- Reporter: “In a statement, Whatley’s campaign […] did not take [a] position on Duke Energy’s proposal to raise electric rates.”
The Cabarrus Compass: Roy Cooper brings affordability message to Concord in U.S. Senate campaign
Chris Miller
- Among his priorities, Cooper said, are rolling back tariffs that he argues are putting pressure on small businesses, reducing health care and utility costs, requiring data centers to pay for their own energy use and pursuing child and child care tax credits to help families.
- For Cooper, that affordability challenge is about more than rising prices — it is increasingly about whether working families can achieve the economic security that once defined the middle class.
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