The nonprofit campaign group closely aligned with House Republican leaders is planning to hit the airwaves with a $5 million ad campaign touting the passage of President Donald Trump’s legislative package.
The American Action Network — the nonprofit arm of GOP leadership’s main super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund — will be going on air nationally starting Thursday with an ad titled “American Comeback.” The ad touts the tax cuts and border security provisions in the reconciliation bill and will go up across the country.
The districts include top Democratic targets for Republicans, such as Reps. Jared Golden and Marcy Kaptur, as well as vulnerable Republicans who voted for the bill, such as Reps. Jen Kiggans and Mike Lawler.
“The American comeback is here,” the narrator says in the ad. “President Trump and House Republicans are delivering for the American people, keeping their promises and delivering the change we demanded.”
“Giving working families the largest tax cut ever, cutting taxes on tips and overtime and strengthening our border, making our families safer,” the ad continues.
Chris Winkelman, the president of American Action Network, told NOTUS that the group is “committed to ensuring Americans know President Trump and Republicans’ ‘one big, beautiful bill’ is a major victory for them, putting more money in their pockets.”
“Washington liberals have left working families in the dust,” Winkelman said.
While the ad promotes Trump’s legislative agenda, polling shows that the bill is unpopular with Americans.
According to a poll by The Economist and YouGov, 53% of Americans said they were opposed to the legislation, while only 35% said they supported it. And, notably, the American Action Network ad makes no mention of the steep cuts to Medicaid and other social safety net programs in the legislation.
Leading up to the vote, vulnerable House Republicans were concerned about voting for the bill, noting the deep cuts to Medicaid and how they could affect rural hospitals. In the end, however, all moderate Republicans except one — Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick — voted for the bill. (Conservative Rep. Thomas Massie also voted “no,” but over concerns with the legislation’s overall cost.)
Fitzpatrick specifically cited the Medicaid cuts as the reason he opposed the legislation, saying the Senate’s changes to it “altered” his analysis for his constituents.
In total, the reconciliation bill is projected to cut more than $1.1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade and result in 11.8 million more people being uninsured by 2034, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.