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First on Fox: A new memorandum was sent to House Republicans on Monday to encourage them to make new job requirements for Medicaid and federal food benefits as lawmakers return to their districts to participate in the annual August period in Congress.
Democrats and Republicans are trapped in a message-passing war about the president Donald Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Bill” will only intensify as the 2026 midterm elections get closer.
American Freedom (AAF), a group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is seeking to provide backups for Republican lawmakers under new guidance on how to sell the bill to voters.
The memorandum sets the Democratic attack as “Left wing agents…already trying to distort and damage (a big and beautiful Bill).
Republican lawmakers clash strategically to avoid a government shutdown crisis
President Donald Trump helped Congress obtain the Budget Act. (Getty Image)
Democrats have been accusing Republicans of depriving federal benefits, such as Medicaid taking millions of people away from millions in order to give tax cuts to the rich.
They hope to be angry enough about the bill to bring them back to the House next year.
But the first part of the memorandum encourages Republican lawmakers to point out that “every Democrat opposes” the bill, followed by three bills that the right sees as the strongest.
The AAF memorandum urges Republicans to say, for example Bill’s extension The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) avoids $4 trillion in tax taxes added to Americans, including “working families.”
The bill also includes “$165 billion to secure the border, including 3,000 new Border Patrol agents, $10,000 ice and Border Patrol bonuses, and $46.5 billion of walls and “$150 billion” to rebuild our military, including shipbuilding, nuclear arsenals, nuclear arsenals and golden domes, “Democrats”, “Democrats also opposed their votes.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is one of the Democratic messages against Trump’s budget bill. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
In addition to celebrating more talk points about the bill’s tax cuts, energy provisions and spending cuts, the AAF appears to be calling on Republicans to make direct criticism of Democrats’ criticism of federal welfare reform.
The memorandum’s “Common Sense Medicaid Reform”, such as “job requirements for adults who are not carers or parents of children under the age of 15 in the Medicaid and SNAP program.”
It also encourages Republicans to point out “reduce Medicaid payments to illegal foreigners to provide coverage for illegal foreigners with a proportionate amount” and “requires regular reviews to ensure that no school deaths or no eligible persons”.
The AAF also believes that the Conservative policy victory in the bill will also be a strong topic, urging Republican lawmakers to point out that the legislation effectively cuts planned parenting for one year and establishes a new tax credit for school choices, “defying that gambling players can gamble by writing off 90% of the gamblers’ losses.”
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But House Republicans will cut their work for them over the next four weeks.
recent Fox News Poll It was conducted in mid-July, 58% of registered voters found not to favor “big and beautiful bills” while only 39% supported it.
There is a big gap between Republicans and Democrats – only 10% of Republican voters who approve the bill are 73%. Independents oppose the bill at a profit margin of 29% to 70%.
But the Democrats don’t know it either. New poll released on Monday Associated Press-Nok Public Affairs Research Center It shows that many Democratic voters view their party as “weak” and “ineffective.”
