RNC Whatley Chair: “Big Beautiful Bill” Cornerstone for 2026 midterms

EXCLUSIVE -While he is examining the mid-term elections next year, when the GOP will defend his majority of the Chamber and the Senate, the president of the National Republican Committee (RNC), Michael Whatley, highlights the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”.

“It is our agenda,” said Whatley in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, when he underlined the National Policy Bill designed by the Republicans that President Donald Trump reported on July 4.

By thinking about last year’s elections, when the GOP recognized the White House and control of the Senate and kept their majority at the time of a thin house like a razor, Whatley said: “We won in 2024 because President Trump said that he was going to rebuild our economy.

“This bill is the embodiment of this program,” he said.

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President Donald Trump signed the GOP’s domestic law on domestic policy, called the Big Beautiful Bill Act, at the White House on July 4. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)

And Whatley said the tax discounts and the expenditure measure, which narrowly exceeded the room and the Senate two weeks ago according to almost partial lines, will be the “cornerstone” of the RNC messaging in the future.

The measurement is filled with Trump campaign track promises in 2024 and priorities to the second mandate on tax reductions, immigration, defense, energy and the limit of debt.

It includes the extension of tax cuts from the president’s 2017 signature 2017 and the elimination of taxes on advice and overtime.

By making his first mandate tax rate Permanent – they were to expire later this year – the bill will reduce taxes of nearly $ 4.4 billions of dollars over the next decade, according to the analysis of the Congressional Budget Office and the Committee for a responsible federal budget.

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The measure also provides billions of border services and codes the controversial repression of president’s immigration.

And the new restructuring law also Medicaid – the federal program of almost 60 years which offers health coverage at around 71 million low -income Americans.

THE Medicaid changesAs well as cuts to food cuts, another of the country’s main safety net programs, were partly written as compensation to pay to extend Trump’s tax reductions. The measurement includes a multitude of new rules and regulations, including work requirements for many of those who require Medicaid coverage.

The chamber president Mike Johnson, alongside the Republican legislators, shows the final statement of the vote on the tax bill of President Donald Trump, during a press conference at the American Capitol on July 3, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images)

The legislative package by $ 3.4 billion should also increase the national debt by $ 4 billion over the next decade.

Democrats, for months, have repeatedly castigated the Republicans on social security net changes. And they highlighted a series of national surveys conducted last month, before the measure was adopted, which indicates the popularity of the bill in negative territory.

“Michael Whatley spits the full BS”, the vice-president of the National Democratic Committee Malcolm Kenyatta accused a statement to Fox News. “Whatley continues to be clearly dishonest.”

Kenyatta noted that “the non -partisan congress budget office projects the Trump bill to 17 million Americans of their health care. Period, end of history. So, if you are not a billionaire, you are fucked up.”

And Kenyatta argued that “this betrayal has scared the Republicans and will be the reason why they lose their majority in mid-term”.

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The ruling party, currently the Republicans, traditionally confronted with rigorous political-contrary winds in the mid-term elections.

But Whatley says that the Republicans are not based on their laurels after the adoption of the interior policy package.

“We are not only going to take this bill and say:” Hey, we are finished. “We are not going to tap the back or take a tour of a victory.”

The president of the National Republican Committee, Michael Whatley, is interviewed by Fox News Digital at the RNC headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

He highlighted the President’s efforts on the prices and added that “we need regulatory help to each federal department and agency which continues every day, and we will already see additional legislation that leaves the congress which will help brake spending and ensure that we have the cancellations that we must have as well.”

Whatley predicted that “when American voters can see that President Trump and the Republicans in the House and the Senate hold the promises they made, and they won in 2024, this will give us the opportunity to swim upstream and ensure that we will extend these majorities in the Chamber and the Senate in 26”.

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The RNC chair also presented that “we see a very healthy fundraising”.

But Whatley has reiterated his longtime caution that “Democrats will also collect a ton of money. They still go beyond Republicans”.

And he boasted: “We are going to win because of the environment. We will win because we are going to have better candidates to do better shopping.”