The frying pan is the overnight slog of House Republicans marking up different sections of their reconciliation bill. The fire is what comes next: actual text that must be defended.
“It doesn’t really change the core message, but it does give us specific policies we can point to to say, ‘Here’s how they’re doing it,’” said Michael Linden, the campaign director for Families Over Billionaires. The group is one of several already running paid ads on tax cuts and Medicaid in swingy Republican districts.
Those ads will continue to run, but now they are about a real bill.