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Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says Trump’s ‘chaos and uncertainty’ leading to economic challenges
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said the economic challenge sparked by President Donald Trump’s «chaos and uncertainty» is the biggest issue facing the Peach State, stressing that the president’s uncertain economic policy is impacting how businesses and residents make decisions for the future.
Ossoff, preparing to run for re-election in 2026, potentially against Georgia’s popular Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who has yet to announce if he will join the race. Ossoff is the only Democrat seeking reelection who represents a state that Trump won last year, making him a top target for Republicans hoping to maintain their Senate majority.
«I am more than prepared for any challenger,» Ossoff, 38, told The Associated Press on Saturday while declining to comment on any potential opponents.
Ossoff defeated incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue in a runoff in 2021, helping Democrats flip control of the Senate and hold onto the chamber’s majority for four years during the Biden administration.
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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)
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)
Ossoff also expressed concerns about Trump’s authoritarian and «un-American» executive action since returning to the White House in January, pointing to the president’s attempts to go after his political opponents.
«We have never seen a president try to wield the federal government to crush his critics and political adversaries,» Ossoff said. «That’s something new in American history, and it is, in my view, un-American. And it’s something that should chill us to the bone, no matter our politics, no matter our policy preferences.»
The lawmaker urged Republicans to remember that eventually a Democrat will be president again and «the shoe will be on the other foot.»
«This is about checks and balances,» he said. «This is about whether or not the executive branch is constrained as designed by our Constitution, by judicious legislators who can put their partisanship aside to protect the public interest.»
Ossoff explained that, while Democrats have limited power without control of the White House or either chamber of Congress, a big part of his job at the moment is to inform the people of Georgia that Trump’s policies are not in the state’s best interest.
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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Church of England names Sarah Mullally first woman Archbishop of Canterbury after Welby exit
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The Church of England announced Friday that Sarah Mullally will become the next Archbishop of Canterbury, marking the first time a woman has been selected for the role.
Serving as the bishop of London since 2018, Mullally replaces former archbishop Justin Welby, who resigned last November after an independent investigation found he failed to act after learning about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps.
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Britain’s new Archbishop of Canterbury-designate, Sarah Mullally, speaks following the announcement of her posting, at Canterbury Cathedral in south east England on October 3, 2025. (BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
She will be the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury after 105 male predecessors.
Mullally will be known as the Archbishop of Canterbury-designate until her election is confirmed at St. Paul’s Cathedral in January 2026, according to the church. A service of installation will take place in March at Canterbury Cathedral.
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The Church of England is the mother church of the Anglican Communion, which has more than 85 million members in 165 countries.
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
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Former FBI Director James Comey, who was indicted Friday on two federal charges alleging that he issued a false statement to Congress and obstructed justice, previously has called for those who lie under oath to face consequences.
For example, Comey once railed against lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who was convicted of misleading federal investigators, and said her case served as an example to deter others from lying to officials.
«The Stewart experience reminded me that the justice system is an honor system,» Comey wrote in his book, «A Higher Loyalty,» released in 2018. «We really can’t always tell when people are lying or hiding documents, so when we are able to prove it, we simply must do so as a message to everyone. People must fear the consequences of lying in the justice system or the system can’t work.»
MARTHA STEWART’S ANGER AT JAMES COMEY FOR MAKING HER ‘TROPHY’ CRIMINAL IS ‘UNDERSTANDABLE,’ ATTORNEY SAYS
«There once was a time when most people worried about going to hell if they violated an oath taken in the name of God,» Comey wrote. «That divine deterrence has slipped away from our modern cultures. In its place, people must fear going to jail…To protect the institution of justice, and reinforce a culture of truth-telling, she had to be prosecuted.»
Comey served as the lead prosecutor who indicted Stewart on charges of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI in 2003, which stemmed from the FBI’s insider trading investigation into Stewart’s friend’s company, ImClone.
Stewart ultimately was convicted on four counts of obstructing justice and lying to investigators. She was sentenced to five months in prison.
Former FBI Director James Comey once railed against lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, who was convicted of misleading federal investigators, and said her case served as an example to deter others from lying to officials. (Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)
Comey’s statement in his book aligns with those he made at the time. After the charges were filed against Stewart in 2003, Comey said Stewart’s «case is about lying — lying to the FBI, lying to the SEC and investors.»
«That is conduct that will not be tolerated. Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not because of who she is, but what she did,» Comey said at a news conference in 2003.
Stewart took a swipe at Comey in her Netflix documentary called «Martha,» which was released October 2024.
«It was so horrifying to me that I had to go through that to be a trophy for these idiots in the U.S. Attorney’s office,» Stewart said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Comey for comment and has yet to receive a reply.
Trump–Comey vendetta back in the spotlight
Meanwhile, Comey’s feud with President Donald Trump is also back in the spotlight following Comey’s indictment.
The two men have gone head-to-head against each other for years, dating back to Trump’s first administration amid the FBI’s investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and they have continued to trade barbs during Trump’s second term.
While Trump has lobbed out terms like «sick person» and «untruthful slime ball,» Comey also has hurled criticism against the president and said he’s not fit for office.
HOW JAMES COMEY’S INDICTMENT COULD GO SOUTH FOR THE DOJ
Former FBI Director James Comey is seen at a hearing on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Associated Press)
For example, Comey described Trump as someone who «lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it,» and questioned whether Trump embodied U.S. values during an interview in April 2018 with ABC News ahead of the release of his book, «A Higher Loyalty.»
«I don’t think he’s medically unfit to be president — I think he’s morally unfit to be president … that’s not a policy statement,» Comey told ABC News. «Again, I don’t care what your views are on guns, or immigration, or taxes. There is something more important than that, that should unite all of us, and that is our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country, the most important being truth. This president is not able to do that.»
That same month Comey attracted the ire of Trump, who accused Comey of being a «terrible» FBI director and that it was his «great honor» to fire Comey.
«James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH,» Trump said in a social media post in April 2018.
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President Donald Trump and former FBI Director James Comey have had a longstanding feud. (Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images and photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI…It was my great honor to fire James Comey!» Trump said.
Trump fired Comey in May 2017, just after Comey revealed in March 2017 before the House Intelligence Committee that the FBI had launched a criminal investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election.
At the time, Trump said that he had ousted Comey due to his handling of an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Comey, who previously identified as a Republican, went on to endorse former President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. He also called for «everyone who cares about the rule of law and America’s indispensable role in the world» to get behind former Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee during the 2024 election when she went up against Trump.
TRUMP SAYS COMEY ‘PLACED A CLOUD OVER THE ENTIRE NATION’ WITH CROSSFIRE HURRICANE, REACTS TO INDICTMENT
President Donald Trump said at the time that he had ousted FBI Director James Comey due to his handling of an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
«Kamala Harris made me feel like it’s finally morning in America,» Comey wrote in a post on X in August 2024.
More recently, Comey and Trump sparred after the former FBI director posted a photo on Instagram in May depicting shells arranged on a beach to spell out «86 47.» The term «86» can mean getting rid of something or someone, and Trump is the 47th president.
Following backlash from Trump allies who interpreted Comey’s post as a threat to remove Trump, Comey said that the thought hadn’t crossed his mind and he opposed «violence of any kind.»
Still, Trump didn’t buy Comey’s explanation.
«He knew exactly what that meant,» Trump told Fox News. «A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination.»
George Stephanopoulos sits down with former FBI director James Comey for an interview in a «20/20» special on April 15, 2018. (Ralph Alswang/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
Following Comey’s indictment, Trump said in a social media post Friday that Comey is «one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to,» and labeled the former FBI director a «DIRTY COP.»
The charges against Comey are tied to his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 regarding the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Meanwhile, Comey has denied the allegations leveled in the charges against him, and said that he is «not afraid.»
«My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way,» Comey said in an Instagram video. «We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she’s right.»
Fox News’ Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
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