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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola is sharply criticizing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, arguing that the legislation could make health care less affordable for thousands of Alaskans.

Peltola says working people are being squeezed by rising costs and corporate interests, declaring: “We are getting crushed under corporate greed.”

Her comments put health care affordability, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, corporate influence and the Alaska Senate race under the spotlight.

Watch Peltola’s full remarks and hear why she is calling for more “working people” in Congress.


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00:00We have tens of thousands of Alaskans who can no longer afford health insurance.
00:04And we are getting crushed by corporate greed.
00:08Dan Sullivan, every single vote, votes along with corporate greed.
00:12He is there for every fat cat in the nation, from health care to fuel to groceries to transportation to
00:19heat.
00:20We are getting crushed under corporate greed.
00:24I love the looks of this room.
00:26This is awesome.
00:28Thank you so much for coming out.
00:30And I am so excited that this is the primary day.
00:32And we wanted to make sure we waited until 9 o'clock before the polls closed in Atka.
00:40There's a whole other time zone in Alaska that we were waiting up for.
00:43If we were our own country, we'd be the 18th largest country in the world.
00:49And we are just so unique and special.
00:52And we have a lot of special circumstances in Alaska.
00:56We really need a champion for us in Washington, D.C. who gets us and will work hard for us.
01:05And I am telling you, I really like Joelle's line of fireable offense.
01:09It's been one fireable offense after another.
01:11Yeah, it's like, where do I start, right?
01:16But no, and I will say this.
01:19Dan and I worked really well together the two years that I was in office.
01:22We were in lockstep working hard for Alaska.
01:25There's only three people in our congressional delegation.
01:28We've all got to be pulling.
01:29Right now, we just have one working for us.
01:32Since 2025 in this new administration, it has been one injurious thing after another.
01:38Starting with clawing back public media.
01:41That's life and death for us.
01:43We need our public media.
01:44It binds us together.
01:46And then it was Doge.
01:48Mowing down Alaskan federal employees.
01:51These, you know, federal employees, the federal government is half of our economy.
01:56And so much of that are federal employees.
01:58These are our partners.
02:0060% of our land mass is federal land.
02:02We need federal employees.
02:04We need federal employees across the board.
02:08And these are breadwinners.
02:09Mowing down more federal employees than any other state.
02:13And no other state is so dependent on those wages.
02:18Yes, and then it was the big, beautiful bill, also known as H.R.1, also known as the rescission
02:26package.
02:27And Dan Sullivan has the audacity to call this the Alaska Opportunity Act.
02:32The only, yeah, it's absurd.
02:36The only opportunity that bill has brought to Alaskans is the opportunity for 10,000 Alaskans to get off of
02:44Medicaid.
02:45A third of Alaskans depend on Medicaid.
02:47We have tens of thousands of Alaskans who can no longer afford health insurance.
02:52And we are getting crushed by corporate greed.
02:55Dan Sullivan, every single vote, votes along with corporate greed.
02:59He is there for every fat cat in the nation, from health care to fuel to groceries to transportation to
03:06heat.
03:07We are getting crushed under corporate greed.
03:10It is high time that we recognize that Congress right now is comprised half millionaires and billionaires.
03:17Half of Congress does not reflect their electorate.
03:19This has to change.
03:21We've got to get working people, regular people in, worrying about regular people.
03:36And I am so glad that the primary is now behind us.
03:41It's a real campaign now.
03:49There's just 77 days left until November 3rd, and we are now in fifth year overdrive.
03:56And everybody in this room, I can just feel it.
03:58And I'm so excited to be in this race with you to provide Alaska with an independent voice working for
04:05Alaskan families, real Alaskans who are getting crushed under corporate greed.
04:09I just can't thank you enough, and I want to say this.
04:13Everyone, everywhere I go, these rooms are packed.
04:18There are three and four times more people than I've ever seen at political events.
04:23We have people who have never participated in politics coming out of the woodwork saying,
04:27this is a moral moment.
04:28What can I do to help?
04:30We have 10,000 Alaskans who are involved in the world.
04:41Going through the door and phone banking, and that's exactly how we're going to win this race.
04:46It's the ground game, and all of you are part of it.
04:49Thank you so much.
04:50Thank you for everything.
04:51We're all in this together, and we're going to do it.
04:53We're going to bring it home.
04:54We're going to bring it home.
05:03We're going to bring it home.
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