Vice President JD Vance visited northeast Pennsylvania on July 16 to make the Trump administration’s first big pitch to voters on President Donald Trump’s tax cuts and budget legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Vance, who cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate to send the bill to Trump’s desk on Independence Day, touted the legislation’s tax breaks and funding for energy production and a children’s savings program. He also cast Democrats as enemies of tax breaks—and thus of the working class—because none supported the legislation in Congress.
Democrats have criticized the legislation for its funding cuts and changes to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, and will likely use it as ammunition against Republicans next year in closely contested congressional races. One of those contests will likely occur in the same region of Pennsylvania that Vance visited on July 16….
Vance Touts Tax Cuts, Child Savings Program in Trump’s Megabill
