In the wake of the recent kerfuffle in Spokane County involving data centers, Michael Baumgartner introduced the Power and Water for Families Act (H.R. 9419) purportedly to protect working-class ratepayers. The bill requires that massive AI data centers must pay the full cost of their infrastructure demands instead of forcing the community to subsidize them. This seemingly supportive stance, however, stands in direct contrast to his vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) in 2025. That vote included massive federal incentives for the very corporate entities he now pretends to oppose. The OBBBA heavily accommodated AI infrastructure by restoring 100% bonus depreciation, allowing data center operators to deduct specialized hardware, HVAC, and electrical systems immediately. It also restored immediate expensing for research expenditures, artificially accelerating the data center buildout that is now straining local utility grids. Baumgartner’s pivot from subsidizing tech infrastructure to penalizing its resource consumption reveals a hypocritical legislative approach. One minute he champions corporate tax breaks that fuel aggressive data center expansion; the next, he feigns shock when working families are left holding the bill for the resulting grid infrastructure buildout. Baumgartner wants you to believe he is on your side. His actual votes, however, reveal he is nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Trump agenda, which has made life more difficult for ordinary citizens while enriching the Trump/Epstein/Bezos class, a class he probably considers himself part of. Apparently, this is what making America great again looks like.