Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during an interview at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Marietta, Georgia. (AP)
During his first four years, Ossoff attempted to establish a reputation as a senator working to advance Georgia's traditional interests, including its farmers and military bases. He says he will attempt to work with Republicans to deliver for Georgia.
The senator, who has recently intensified his criticisms of Trump, warned Saturday that businesses and households in Georgia are struggling to plan for the future because of constant changes in the federal government's trade and economic moves.
"Businesses are unable to invest with an understanding of what the rules of international trade will be from one hour or week or month to the next," Ossoff told The Associated Press. "Households are unable to plan their annual budgets because there’s so much chaos and uncertainty in the implementation of federal economic policy."
"This administration needs to clearly define its economic objectives, and it needs to competently implement its plan, whatever that plan may be," he continued. "The fact that the White House does not even know what its policy is, and is with such unpredictability and chaos, lurching from one policy to the other, is putting the state’s economy at serious economic risk."
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Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during an interview at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Marietta, Georgia. (AP)
In addition to his criticism of Trump, Ossoff has cited shortcomings during the Biden administration, particularly when it comes to border security. He was one of 12 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act, named after a Georgia nursing student murdered by Venezuelan migrant Jose Antonio Ibarra.
The law requires illegal migrants accused — even without a conviction — of theft or violent crimes to be detained by the Department of Homeland Security.
"My view is that the American people expect and deserve secure borders," Ossoff said. "And I think the Biden administration failed in its border policies. The American people expect and deserve for people who enter this country illegally and may pose a threat to public safety or national security to be apprehended by the authorities."
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"But the American people don’t support and don’t expect federal police raids on elementary schools and hospitals and churches," he continued, referring to the Trump administration's controversial immigration enforcement actions. "And [the American people] don’t expect our military installations to become mass prison camps for immigrants and don’t want entire families rounded up with no due process. We just learned yesterday about a two-year-old U.S. citizen — a two-year-old girl — who was deported without due process. Our immigration policy needs to be responsible and serious. It also needs to be humane."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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