The Battle Over The 'big, Beautiful Bill' Moves From Capitol Hill To The Campaign Trail

The House Democrats' campaign limb connected Monday announced it's going up pinch integer ads targeting GOP lawmakers complete their support for nan sweeping Republican-crafted home argumentation package.

The move comes 3 days aft President Donald Trump signed into rule what he and Republicans telephone nan "big, beautiful bill."

The ads, backed by a humble buy, will target 35 Republican-controlled House districts that Democrats are trying to flip successful adjacent year's midterm elections, erstwhile nan GOP will beryllium defending their razor-thin mostly successful nan chamber.

Don't beryllium amazed if nan ads by nan Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which calls nan GOP's monolithic measurement "the Big, Ugly Bill," are quickly followed by ads from Republicans taking purpose astatine Democrats.

POLITICAL FIGHT OVER ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ SHIFTS TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL

Elon Musk's "America Party" announcement comes connected nan heels of President Donald Trump signing nan One, Big Beautiful Bill Act astatine nan White House connected nan Fourth of July. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

With nan legislative conflict complete nan "big, beautiful bill" finished, and Trump and congressional Republican leaders victorious, nan run way warfare is now underway complete nan arguable measure, which galore of nan astir caller nationalist sentiment polls propose is not very celebrated pinch Americans.

"Every Democrat voted to wounded moving families and to protect nan position quo," based on a memo from nan National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), released minutes aft nan last House transition of nan measure past Thursday.

And nan NRCC, which is nan run limb of nan House GOP, emphasized that "House Republicans will beryllium relentless successful making this ballot nan defining rumor of 2026."

WHAT'S ACTUALLY IN TRUMP'S ‘BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’

The caller rule is stuffed afloat of Trump's 2024 run way promises and second-term priorities connected taxation cuts, immigration, defense, power and nan indebtedness limit. 

It includes extending his signature 2017 taxation cuts and eliminating taxes connected tips and overtime pay. 

By making his first-term tax rates imperishable – they were group to expire later this twelvemonth – nan measure will trim taxes by astir $4.4 trillion complete nan adjacent decade, according to study by nan Congressional Budget Office and nan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. 

The measurement besides provides billions for separator information and codifies nan president's arguable migration crackdown.

The U.S. Capitol connected June 25, 2025. Republicans and Democrats will conflict for nan House and Senate majorities successful adjacent year's midterm elections. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Republicans are pointing to what they opportunity is beardown support for nan measurement owed to nan taxation cuts.

NRCC chair Rep. Richard Hudson of North Carolina, successful an sentiment portion published connected Friday morning, charged that House Democrats "rejected communal sense" by voting against nan bill.

"And we will make judge each 1 of them has to reply for it," he vowed, arsenic he pointed to adjacent year's legislature elections.

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But nan measure besides restructures Medicaid – nan astir 60-year-old national programme that provides wellness sum to astir 71 cardinal low-income Americans. 

The changes to Medicaid, arsenic good arsenic cuts to nutrient stamps, different 1 of nan nation's awesome information nett programs, were drafted successful portion arsenic an offset to salary for extending Trump's taxation cuts. The measurement includes a slew of caller rules and regulations, including activity requirements for galore of those seeking Medicaid coverage.

And nan $3.4 trillion legislative package is besides projected to surge nan nationalist indebtedness by $4 trillion complete nan adjacent decade.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., charged that "extreme House Republicans conscionable approved nan largest trim to Medicaid and nutrient assistance successful American history to money taxation breaks for their billionaire donors."

And DCCC chair Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., pledged that "the DCCC will make judge each battleground elector knows really susceptible House Republicans abandoned them by passing nan astir unpopular portion of authorities successful modern American history, and we’re going to return backmost nan House mostly because of it."  

The conflict complete nan measure is besides playing retired successful Senate races.

"I'm profoundly concerned astir this measure and what this will do. We’re going to beryllium talking a batch astir it," Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire told Fox News Digital connected Friday.

Pappas, who's moving successful nan important 2026 title to win retiring longtime Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for a Democratic-held spot Republicans would emotion to flip, took purpose astatine nan bill.

"This was a one-party effort and, unfortunately, it arrived astatine a conclusion that I deliberation is not bully for our authorities and for our country."

"We’re going to beryllium talking astir this measure because nan results are that 46,000 group successful New Hampshire will suffer their wellness insurance. We’ll person group that will spell hungry, that won’t beryllium capable to entree assistance," Pappas warned. "And we cognize that security premiums for each Granite Staters could spell up arsenic a consequence of uncompensated attraction costs and nan load that this places connected our hospitals."

But erstwhile Sen. Scott Brown, who past period launched a Republican run for nan Senate successful New Hampshire, sees things differently.

Asked astir disapproval from Democrats connected nan Medicaid cuts, Brown said, "My mom was connected welfare. Those are very important programs and I’ve said already that nan group that really request them nan most, nan ones who are disabled, nan ones who can’t get retired and work, they should person them."

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"It’s meant for lower- and middle-income group and I support them getting those benefits. But I don’t support those who are present illegally getting them," Brown said. 

And he added that he doesn't support giving nan benefits to "people who are able-bodied and tin perfectly spell retired and do immoderate volunteerism, spell retired and work."