FIRST ON FOX: A gaggle carefully tied to Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is spending tens of millions of {dollars} on a brand new advert marketing campaign towards 23 lawmakers, accusing Republicans of attempting to remove well being care from senior residents and kids.
The adverts, which start operating on Monday, accuse Republicans of “threatening healthcare for 37 million kids and kicking seniors out of nursing homes just to make billionaires like Elon Musk even richer.”
Fox Information Digital obtained a primary have a look at a listing of 23 Republican lawmakers being focused by Home Majority PAC (HMP), a fundraising operation aligned with Democratic management.
The vast majority of them received shut races throughout California, Pennsylvania, Arizona and different states that had been important to clinching the Home GOP’s razor-thin majority within the 119th Congress.
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A gaggle aligned with Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries is spending seven figures on a brand new advert marketing campaign invoking Elon Musk (Getty Photographs)
Mike Smith, president of HMP’s motion arm Home Majority Ahead, linked the adverts to Home Republicans’ vote final week to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda by way of the price range reconciliation course of.
“Last week, Republicans betrayed the American people—breaking their promise and paving the way to strip millions of men, women, and children of their health insurance,” Smith stated. “We will make sure every American knows exactly who is responsible.”
The 23 Home Republicans being focused are:
- Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska
- Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz.
- Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz.
- Rep. Kevin Kiley R-Calif.
- Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif.
- Rep. Younger Kim, R-Calif.
- Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif.
- Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo.
- Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa
- Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa
- Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Mich.
- Rep. John James, R-Mich.
- Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb.
- Rep. Tom Kean Jr., R-N.J.
- Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y.
- Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa.
- Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa.
- Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.
- Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.
- Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va.
- Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis.
- Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis.
- Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas
President Donald Trump has stated he doesn’t wish to contact Medicaid (AP Photograph/Ben Curtis)
It is a part of Democrats’ continued pushback towards the proposed $880 billion in cuts Republicans are searching for to packages underneath the jurisdiction of the Home Vitality & Commerce Committee.
Republicans are on the lookout for no less than $1.5 trillion in cuts to authorities spending to offset the price of Trump’s priorities anticipated to be included within the invoice, together with eliminating taxes on tipped and additional time wages in addition to extra funding for U.S.-Mexico border operations.
GOP lawmakers have persistently identified that Medicaid and different federal support packages are usually not talked about within the textual content of their framework for that laws.
Republicans have argued they’re solely seeking to root out waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal authorities. Trump, for his half, instructed reporters final week that he wouldn’t contact Medicaid.
Mike Marinella, spokesman for Home Republicans’ marketing campaign arm the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), instructed Fox Information Digital in response to HMP, “Democrats are running the same playbook of resorting to shameless fearmongering and outright lies because they’re trying to hide the fact that they just voted to raise taxes on hardworking Americans. This is a disgusting, pathetic attempt to distract voters from their failures, and they know it.”
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson, R-La., ushered by means of a large invoice calling for no less than $1.5 trillion in spending cuts final week (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
However Democrats and a few reasonable Republicans are skeptical that the financial savings may be discovered with out reducing deeply into these packages.
Democrats additionally seem to have discovered a possible new boogeyman in Musk forward of the 2026 midterm elections, as he and the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) work to search out no less than $1 trillion in cuts to the federal forms.
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HMP’s advert technique was first reported by Punchbowl Information final week.
And the NRCC pointed Fox Information Digital to a memo despatched by them final week that accused Democrats of weaponizing the Trump price range invoice vote.
“They have turned their backs on the working class and have taken a wrecking ball to America’s fiscal future. This vote is an anvil around the ankles of vulnerable House Democrats, and the NRCC plans to weaponize it to ensure they lose their races in 2026,” the memo stated.
