{"id":1055471,"date":"2025-08-04T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055471"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:09:39","slug":"icymi-democrats-launch-organizing-summer-blitz-to-press-republicans-on-trumps-billionaire-first-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-democrats-launch-organizing-summer-blitz-to-press-republicans-on-trumps-billionaire-first-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Democrats Launch \u201cOrganizing Summer\u201d Blitz to Press Republicans on Trump\u2019s Billionaire-First Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cDemocrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump\u2019s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill \u2014 especially Medicaid cuts that will leave millions of Americans without health care coverage. \u2026 The Democratic National Committee\u2019s \u2018Organizing Summer\u2019 will feature events in all 50 states, beginning with Alaska, Texas, Colorado and California over the coming week. The party\u2019s message will be reinforced by online advertising and billboard trucks at state and county fairs in the coming days targeting vulnerable House Republicans in Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey, among other states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/democrats-organizing-summer-trump-republican-tax-bill-856d15046abb84beaed60a4cacdaba8a\"><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Democrats launching summer blitz to press Republicans on Trump spending plan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Steve Peoples&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Democrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump\u2019s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill \u2014 especially Medicaid cuts that will leave millions of Americans without health care coverage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Democratic National Committee\u2019s \u201cOrganizing Summer\u201d will feature events in all 50 states, beginning with Alaska, Texas, Colorado and California over the coming week. The party\u2019s message will be reinforced by online advertising and billboard trucks at state and county fairs in the coming days targeting vulnerable House Republicans in Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey, among other states.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cAs Democrats, our job is to ensure that every American across the country understands the devastating impacts of this bill,\u201d DNC Chair Ken Martin said. \u201cDemocrats will be holding events, highlighting Republican hypocrisy, and ensuring Americans across the country know exactly who is responsible for taking away health care, food, construction jobs, and nursing homes in order to give massive handouts to billionaires.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>[P]olling suggests that U.S. adults have been slow to embrace the GOP\u2019s message. <\/strong>The new law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, leave more than another 10 million people without health insurance and leave millions of others without food stamps, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>As part of the new effort, the Democratic National Committee is also launching a new digital advertising campaign initially targeting vulnerable Republicans in Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia. <\/strong>That\u2019s in addition to the DNC sending mobile billboard trucks to county fairs in the districts of Republicans in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cDemocrats are launching a nationwide summer blitz designed to force vulnerable Republicans to defend President Donald Trump\u2019s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill \u2014 especially Medicaid cuts that will leave millions of Americans without health care coverage. \u2026 The Democratic National Committee\u2019s \u2018Organizing Summer\u2019 will feature events in all 50 states, beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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