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Sheesh. What a jerk. President Trump may "love inflation," but Oregonians certainly don't. No matter what’s happening back in D.C., I’m going to keep fighting to make life more affordable.

When President Trump canceled $1 billion in clean energy funding for the Pacific Northwest, putting more than 10,000 jobs at risk, I ordered state agencies to fast-track every solar and wind permit before President Trump’s deadlines wiped out even more Oregon jobs.

Everyone knows my goal is to protect OUR right to bear arms. I’ve had numerous conversations with Senator Drazan about that right before, during, and after the primary. From those conversations, I am confident that electing Christine Drazan as Oregon’s next Governor is the best way for US to protect OUR right to bear arms going forward. It is all but certain Governor Drazan will have an anti-2A legislature and will be facing off with her own anti-2A Attorney General for at least the first two years of her term. But we have had productive conversations about how she plans to address and combat those difficulties. The primaries are over, and I say it is time for gun owners to get behind Senator and future Governor Drazan 114% (if you catch my drift). There is too much at stake for us if we don’t!

🚨 NEW: Under Gov. Kotek, Oregon homelessness has dropped over 19% in the past year.

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What did our schools do with the extra $9B? oregoncatalyst.com/96319-sch…

Rep. Cyrus Javadi is big mad that people around his district in Tillamook Oregon are putting up signs that say- “Vote NO on Javadi’s gas tax”. ‼️Reminder- Rep. Javadi won his district running as a Republican then switched parties to become a Democrat… 🤔👀 Here’s a tip- if you don’t want to be called out for voting for tax increases then don’t vote for them. 🙄😵‍💫 We don’t care if it’s only “three cents”. I hope they put up more signs!! Call this crap out. Here’s what he wrote below- 👇🏻 So let’s discuss this alleged menace called the Javadi Gas Tax. This terrible six cents. The Republicans’ boogeyman of the apocalypse. The measure would add 6 cents per gallon on gas and diesel. Of that, 2 cents would go to counties and 1 cent would go to cities. That’s it. Three cents. The last time we had to worry about what three cents could purchase it was the 1940s. You could almost buy a newspaper and maybe a Coca-Cola for 3 cents. Now? Um, well, the penny has become so obsolete, the US Mint is no longer making them. Ok, but I can already see the skeptics ready to object. Because, they’d correctly argue, that it’s 3 cents per gallon. And that gallons add up fast. Yet, when you add those gallons up, the result is still pretty modest. In fact, for the average driver in Tillamook, we are talking about roughly $2.50 a month. That’s the number. Not $250. Not $25 a week. Not “your family can no longer afford Christmas because Javadi personally attacked the internal combustion engine.” About $2.50 a month. Less than a candy bar. Less than a Grande Americano from Starbucks. Less than a bag of chips. And what does that money do? It helps cities fix roads. That should not be a hard sell. But modern politics has a way of turning basic maintenance into an ideological crisis. Somewhere along the line, we became a people who say we love infrastructure right up until someone mentions paying for it. Then suddenly everyone turns into a budget monk, clutching their robe and gasping at the very thought. But roads do not get fixed with indignation. Sadly. But, money, it turns out, does fix roads. This week’s newsletter calls out one of the greatest political tricks—describe the costs in detail and the consequences in fog.

Clackamas County leaders have decided not to give Portland the $4 million it requested for homeless shelters in the city, dealing a setback to the latest effort to address the houselessness crisis. katu.com/news/local/clackama…

PPS once forecasted 54k student enrollment. Now they are forecasting 36k students. I'm definitely not an expert on school funding, but if enrollment drops by a third, there will be cuts.

Oregon is now one of the worst and least affordable states to raise a family in the US. Everything from eggs to cleaning supplies is costing families $18K MORE each year than other states. While Democrat leader continue to point fingers, I'm here for solutions. Giving local businesses tax breaks will keep businesses in Oregon and lower prices for families. katu.com/news/local/oregon-r…

Visited Spent Cartridge in Burns and met Ben Callaway, the gun shop owner and star witness in the Measure 114 case. His testimony exposed the real damage this permit-to-purchase scheme and magazine ban would inflict on law-abiding citizens and small businesses. HB 4145 delays implementation until 2028, but the fight continues in the Oregon Supreme Court. Government permission slips have no place in our constitutional rights. Thanks, Ben, for standing strong. We will defend the Second Amendment. And Together, we will take back our Oregon!