RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Celebrating her reelection, Jacky Rosen is setting her sights on new legislation to tackle housing affordability, healthcare, and reproductive rights.
“My motto is agree where you can and fight where you must,” Rosen said.
The newly reelected Senator says she already got her priorities set for this term, starting with her push to pass the Home Act, aimed at making housing more affordable and accessible for Nevadans.
“If you’re their corporate investors who’ve been coming to Nevada, buying up apartments and homes, jacking up prices for sales that no one can afford, we’re going to fine them, and then that money will go back into a pool to pay for affordable housing.”
Rosen also emphasized her commitment to protecting access to healthcare, specifically the Affordable Care Act, which she argues is vital for saving lives amid ongoing challenges to the legislation under an incoming Trump administration.
“Imagine, God forbid, you have a child who is diabetic or has allergies, or asthma. You’ve doomed them to a lifetime of not being able to get insurance, being denied, or having it be so expensive you can never afford it,” she said.
The Senator will also be taking a firm stance on reproductive rights. She voiced concerns about restricted access to abortions in other states, citing recent cases in which women have been denied healthcare with fatal consequences.
“I do not want any women in Nevada to go a hospital having a problem with their pregnancy and they are denied access, and they die like they’ve been dying in Texas and Georgia from a complication that is preventable,” said Rosen.
Childcare is also top of mind for Rosen. She has joined bipartisan legislation to increase the availability of affordable care by allowing non-profit childcare providers that qualify as small businesses to participate in loan programs.
“Like our YMCA’s, churches, synagogues, Boys and Girls Club, will have access to Small Business Administration grants so they can set up childcare at a reasonable rate,” said Rosen.
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