WRDE Sits Down with Blunt Rochester for Exclusive Interview on New Plan

Wilmington, Del. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester is releasing her plan to grow and strengthen the middle class. In an exclusive interview with WRDE, she shared the “ambitious plan to address rising costs and stagnant wages.” Blunt Rochester’s plan tackles the challenges Delawareans and Americans face today — workforce shortages, skyrocketing housing costs, health care affordability, and rising prices at the grocery store and gas pump. The plan lays out how, in the Senate, Blunt Rochester will build on her track record in the House of creating good-paying jobs and making necessities like housing and health care more affordable.

Highlights:

[Congresswoman Blunt Rochester] told CoastTV Sussex County is very important to her, noting that her first piece of legislation passed was in North Bethany about Flood Insurance. 

“I tell my colleagues in Washington that Delaware is not as simple as you think. We are urban, suburban, rural and coastal. We really mirror the rest of the country,” she says. “I see Sussex County as kind of a microcosm of our whole country.”

Blunt Rochester’s affordability plan tackles everything from housing to food costs, including bolstering federal agencies to help stop grocery price gouging. Another element is a bipartisan farm bill that addresses crop insurance to investments in agriculture technology.

Blunt Rochester says on her new Delivering for Delaware tour she will visit with stakeholders up and down the state, and spend significant time in Sussex County. 

“[In] Sussex County, sometimes people feel like, ‘Hey, I’m not seen,’ and I wanted people in Sussex to know: I see you, I hear you, even if you didn’t vote for me, I’m going to represent you.”

Blunt Rochester’s full plan to grow the middle class can be found here.