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Donald Trump and Republicans have made clear they love inflation. Donald Trump and Republicans have told the American people directly, \u2018We don&#8217;t think about your personal financial situation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the Republicans \u2014 it should come as no surprise \u2014 are pro-data center without any restraints,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>His criticism of Republicans\u2019 approach to artificial intelligence and the infrastructure needed to power it comes amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/01\/data-centers-have-a-politics-problem-and-industry-knows-it-01020412\" target=\"_blank\"><u>groundswell of voter frustration<\/u><\/a> in key battleground districts about the impact of data centers on their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/31\/trump-data-centers-midterms\" target=\"_blank\"><u>told Blue Light News earlier this year<\/u><\/a> protecting consumers from rising electricity costs associated with the data center boom would be a priority on Democrats\u2019 should they win the majority.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/31\/trump-data-centers-midterms\" target=\"_blank\"><u>posted on Truth Social Monday<\/u><\/a> that communities that reject data centers will end up \u201cbackwards and poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries specifically hit Republicans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/02\/ai-regulation-trump-allies-state-powers-00428337\" target=\"_blank\"><u>policies embedded in their sweeping<\/u><\/a> 2025 tax-cuts-focused domestic policy bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Republicans voted to preempt state and local authorities from regulating data centers at all,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cAnd every single House Republican but one or two voted to unleash data centers on the American people in an unfettered fashion. That&#8217;s facts, right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He specifically blasted vulnerable Republican Reps. Mike Lawler of New York and David Valadao of California for voting to \u201cgive tax credits to people building massive data centers in communities across the country, particularly in rural America, without restriction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can try to run away from their votes right now,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cWe will not let them hide.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries blasted Republicans Monday for being \u201cpro-data center without any restraints,\u201d making his strongest rebuke yet of the tech industry\u2019s massive infrastructure buildout as it becomes a key issue in midterm campaigns. \u201cDonald Trump and Republicans are divorced from reality,\u201d Jeffries said at a Capitol Hill news conference. \u201cThey think that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}