Well, how do Democrats feel about the outcome of this year's legislative session?

Our Mackenzie speak was back in Frankfort today to hear from party leaders about what they view as accomplishments and missed opportunities.

I am extraordinarily, like so many Kentuckians waking up the day after, this legislative session ended, very, disappointed in the actions of the Senate majority and the House majority.

Kentucky Democrats say the state budget passed by the General Assembly misses the mark in a big way, especially when it comes to funding Medicaid.

Critics say the state failed to adequately make the program whole after the reductions from the federal level, and predict that rural hospitals will suffer and possibly close.

When you take into account the federal medicine, we're going to lose.

That loss is going to come to close to $2 billion.

As a single digit bill.

Senate Bill nine was considered a priority measure.

It aimed to ease the state's housing crisis through incentives for manufacturers.

However, the Republican sponsored bill failed to pass.

I'm going to tell you what the big the biggest missed opportunity was was affordable housing.

On the last day, we kept waiting for a bill that was going to provide that affordable housing, but it's dead.

My Republican counterparts were debating whether they wanted to add Airbnbs to your community, which everyone knows is the rule of destruction, deterioration in your community.

That's what they were debating.

We talk about affordable housing, but we couldn't get the job done.

Democrats are also not happy with the lack of teacher raises or movement on universal pre-K an issue.

Governor Andy Beshear has championed since he came into office.

Kentucky ranks.

I think it's 48.

A month starting teacher pay.

I mean, I got to start there for I missed opportunity.

If we want to recruit the best teachers or keep the best teachers, then we need to actually act like and show up with our checkbook here.

Half the states in this country have some form of universal pre-K.

Five of the seven around us have some form of universal pre-K.

Now it varies the methodology, but they have some form for pre-K.

Kentucky is in that bottom half.

Representative Moore says House Democrats have legislation to be proud of, and that the minority's work on improving the budget mattered despite their small numbers.

We've led efforts to make our community safer by cracking down on illegal street racing.

We passed legislation to grow the next generation of Kentucky farmers, including in our urban communities, because agriculture is not just a part of our past.

It also has to continue to be a part of Kentucky's future.

Now is proud to help improve a bill that will mean that Kentuckians leaving incarceration had access to outpatient psychiatric care.

Because treatment shouldn't just mean being locked up.

It should mean actually getting the care that you need.

Kentucky Democrats are now looking ahead to this year's election cycle.

Everything that we did was with just 20 members in the House.

20 members made bad bills.

Better.

20 members improved the state budget.

20 members passed meaningful legislation that will make a difference in people's lives.

So just imagine what we can do when we send more Democrats to the Kentucky House.

Kentucky's primary election is May 19th.

The voter registration deadline is April 20th.

For Kentucky edition, I'm Mackenzie Spink.

Representative Moore says legislation on data centers was another missed opportunity this session.

House Bill 593, which aimed to protect ratepayers from taking on the energy costs of data centers, passed the House but then died in the Senate.