Abigail Spanberger: “Energy rates are going up, electric bills are going up.”

“And interestingly, at least in Virginia, in southwest Virginia, that's where we saw the climb happening earlier. And then it began a conversation that happened all across Virginia. Energy rates are going up, electric bills are going up. And certainly then once we started seeing some of the real chaos coming out of Washington with trade and tariff policies being disruptive, the, you know, HR1, the so called, one big beautiful bill is certainly driving up energy costs.” (02:53–02:56)

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