Game on: Republicans, Democrats exchange shots on Big Beautiful Bill in 2026 Battle for Congress

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President Donald Trump quickly targeted the Democrats to oppose his bill on domestic policy.
“No democrat voted for us, and I think we use it in the campaign that arrives halfway through, because we have to beat them”, ”
The president spoke when he headed an event on July 4 at Iowa State Fairgroups to launch celebrations for the 250th anniversary next year of the declaration of independence.
A few hours earlier, the House of Representatives controlled by the GOP, during a 218-214 vote Thursday almost entirely along the party, raised the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” to the last adoption of the Congress. Earlier in the week, vice-president JD Vance broke out equality in the Senate to advance the measure 51-50.
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President Donald Trump is expressed in Iowa State Fairgrounds to monks, Iowa, Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Photographer: Scott Morgan / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The president is expected to sign the solid expenditure and tax reduction bill on Friday at 5 p.m. on Friday at a signing ceremony of the White House.
The legislative battle on the finished bill and Trump and the republican leaders of the victorious congress, the war of the campaign campaign now begins with the controversial measure, which suggest that many of the most recent public opinion polls are not very popular with the Americans.
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“Each democrat voted to harm workers’ families and to protect the status quo,” said a service note from the National Committee of the Republican Congress (NRCC) released a few minutes after the final adoption of the bill of the bill.
And the NRCC, which is the campaign branch of the GOP in the Chamber, stressed that “the Republicans of the Chamber will be relentless to make this vote the determining question of 2026”.
The republicans of the room will defend their thin majority as the razor in the room (220-215 when the house is at full power) when the 435 seats are to be won in the mid-term elections next year.

The American Capitol in Washington, DC, United States, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. The Republicans and Democrats will fight for the majority of the room and the Senate in the mid-term elections next year. (Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The president of the NRCC, the representative Richard Hudson of Caroline du Nord, in an article of opinion published on Friday morning, accused that the Democrats of the Chamber “rejected common sense” by voting against the bill.
“And we will make sure that each of them must respond to this,” he promised, when he underlined the elections of the congress of next year.
The bill is filled with promises of Trump campaign trails in 2024 and priorities in the second term on tax reductions, immigration, defense, energy and debt limit.
It includes the extension of its 2017 signature tax reductions and eliminating taxes on advice and overtime.
By rendering its permanent first -term prices – they were to expire later this year – the bill will reduce taxes of nearly 4.4 dollars 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 Restructure bill also Medicaid – the federal program of almost 60 years which offers health coverage at around 71 million low -income Americans. In addition, the Senate Republicans increased Medicaid discounts on what the Chamber initially adopted at the end of May.
Changes to MedicaidAs 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.
And the legislative package by 3.4 dollars should also increase the national debt by $ 4 billions over the next decade.
Democrats in recent months have castigated the Republicans on social security net changes.
“Breaking: The Républicains of the Chamber vote to launch 17 million people in health care,” shouted the title in an e-mail of the National Democratic Committee to the partisans, a few moments after the adoption of the bill on Thursday.
The Democrat Manager of Hakeem Jeffries accused that “the Republicans of the Extreme Chamber had just approved the greatest reduction in Medicaid and food aid in American history to finance tax alternatives for their billionaire donors”.
And the president of the campaign committee of the Democratic Congress (DCCC), Suzan Delbene, has committed that “the DCC will ensure that each battlefield voter knows how the Vulnerable Chamber Republicans abandoned them by passing the most unpopular legislation in modern American history, and we will take up the majority of the Chamber.”
Expect to see advertisements of democrats from this holiday weekend to target the Republicans about their adoption of the bill. And democrats are expected to increase the volume of the email campaign next month, during the August congress break.
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But the Republicans are also in attack, targeting the Democrats for having voted against tax reductions.
The Republicans highlight a survey conducted by a group of public policies aligned by the GOP which indicates solid support for the bill due to the tax reduction provisions.
A press release earlier this week of the group, One Nation, argued that “the survey shows that the public supports the republican plan to reduce taxes for families, to eliminate social security taxes, overtime and advice, and to reign over waste and abuse in the federal budget”.

President Donald Trump speaks during the American launch event 250 on July 3, 2025, at Iowa State Fairgrouds. (Getty Images)
The president, while returning to the country’s capital early Friday after his event in Iowa, praised his bill.
“I think it’s very popular. That’s a lot of things, but one of them is the greatest tax reduction in the history of our country. And that makes him very popular,” said Trump.
But the Democrats highlighted a multitude of national surveys conducted last month which indicate the popularity of the bill in negative territory.
By a margin of 21 points, the voters questioned Fox News National Survey Opposed to the bill (38% favored against 59% opposite).
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The bill was also underwater in other national surveys carried out last month by the Washington Post (minus 19 points), Pew Research (minus 20 points) and the Quinnipiac university (minus 26 points).
About half of the respondents interviewed in the Fox News survey said that the bill would harm his family (49%), while a quarter thought it would help (23%), and another quarter did not think it would make a difference (26%).

The voters interviewed by Fox News, in a survey led last month, opposed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” by a 59% margin to 38%. (Fox News)
Sixty percent estimated that they had a good understanding of what is to the extent, and although these voters are more likely to promote the legislation than those who do not know it, think even more than that will harm rather than help their family (45% against 34%).
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The latest surveys all indicated a large partisan division on the measure.
According to the Fox News survey, which was led from June 13 to 16, almost three -quarters of the Republicans (73%) favored the bill, while almost nine out of ten democrats (89%) and almost three -quarters of the self -employed (73%) opposed the measure.