BIG, BEAUTIFUL, BILL: Vance Hits The Road To Sell Trump Admin Wins

Vice President JD Vance will return to his home state Monday to continue championing the GOP’s sweeping tax-and-border legislation.

He’s set to appear in Canton, Ohio, to highlight the bill’s “benefits for hardworking American families and businesses,” according to his office. While aides released few details ahead of the visit, NBC News reports that Vance will deliver remarks at a steel plant roughly 60 miles south of Cleveland.

This marks Vance’s second visit this month to promote the legislation, a grab bag of conservative priorities Republicans have branded the “One Big, Beautiful Bill”—with the vice president taking the lead as its chief messenger on the road, The Associated Press reported.

In West Pittston, Pennsylvania, the vice president told workers at an industrial machine shop that they deserve to keep more of their earnings, touting the law’s new tax deductions on overtime pay as a key win for working families. The law also ends income taxes on tips.

Vance also promoted the bill’s creation of “Trump Accounts,” a new children’s savings program, and emphasized its support for expanded energy extraction. He criticized Democrats for voting against the measure, which — had it failed — would have triggered automatic tax increases at the end of the year. The cuts were initially passed in 2017 during Trump’s first term, but had a 10-year sunset clause; the current law makes them permanent.

The legislation narrowly passed the GOP-controlled Congress, with Vance casting the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.

In addition to tax relief, the package includes hundreds of billions for Trump’s immigration agenda while slashing waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicaid and food stamps.

Vance is intensifying his public relations push for the bill as the White House seeks to capitalize on its advertised benefits to all Americans.

The White House sees the new law as a clear political boon and, as such, is sending Vance to promote it in swing congressional districts that will determine whether Republicans retain their House majority next year.

The northeastern Pennsylvania stop is in the district represented by Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, a first-term lawmaker who knocked off a six-time Democratic incumbent last fall.

On Monday, Vance will be in the district of Democrat Rep. Emilia Sykes, who is a top target for the National Republican Congressional Committee this cycle.

Polls before the bill’s passage claimed that it was unpopular, but much of the media coverage was negative and remains so. That said, the public approves of many provisions such as increasing the child tax credit and allowing workers to deduct more of their tips on taxes.

Two weeks ago, Democrats also came out in opposition of another measure to cut government spending. The measure eliminated government funding for PBS and NPR. Vance had to cast another tie-breaking vote after three Republicans — Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — joined all Democrats in opposing the plan.

The package, passed by the House of Representatives last month, eliminates approximately $8.3 billion previously allocated to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and $1.1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which partially funds National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

A projected $400 million decrease to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program is anticipated to be removed through an amendment before the measure is voted on.

“There was a lot of interest from our members on doing something on PEPFAR,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters after a meeting with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought. “That’s reflected in the substitute.”

“We hope that if we can get this across the finish line in the Senate, that the House will accept that one small modification that ends up making the package about a $9 billion rescissions package,” Thune added at the time.

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