{"id":12868,"date":"2025-09-03T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-aides-plan-megabill-marketing-reboot-for-gop-lawmakers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:46:46","slug":"trump-aides-plan-megabill-marketing-reboot-for-gop-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-aides-plan-megabill-marketing-reboot-for-gop-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump aides plan megabill marketing reboot for GOP lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two months after President Donald Trump called it \u201cthe most popular bill ever signed,\u201d congressional Republicans are facing a sputtering effort<\/a> to sell their sprawling domestic policy law \u2014 and they\u2019re getting fresh advice Wednesday from top administration officials.<\/p>\n

During a morning briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and James Blair, the president\u2019s top political aide, are set to walk House Republicans, and later their staffs, through the most popular pieces of the megabill that Trump wants them to tout ahead of next year\u2019s midterms. Tony Fabrizio, a top Trump pollster, will also present a slate of fresh polling on the tax cut and spending law that Trump signed on July 4, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss plans for the private briefing.<\/p>\n

The core message, according to one of the people who was briefed on the planned presentation, is that Republicans should focus on the bill\u2019s tax cuts for \u201cworking families\u201d \u2014 including the elimination of income taxes on some tips and overtime and increases to the child tax credit and employer child care tax credit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overarching point is that Republicans can control their own outcomes in the midterms if they just talk to key voters about what voters care about and highlight for those voters what we have done for them so far and what we\u2019re planning to do next,\u201d the person said, urging Republicans to \u201cjust keep the main thing the main thing.”<\/p>\n

Trump acknowledged a rare branding misstep last week, admitting that the name of the law \u2014 the One Big Beautiful Bill Act \u2014 could be leaving voters mystified about what the legislation actually does.<\/p>\n

House Republicans say they\u2019re all ears for more advice. But many also strongly believe they\u2019ve been doing a good job already selling the bill they spent six grueling months trying to pass.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a marketer,\u201d Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) said about Trump Tuesday. \u201cHe will figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cone big, beautiful bill\u201d branding had its origin in a long-running fight between the House and Senate over whether to unite the GOP domestic policy agenda in a single bill or multiple bills. Trump embraced the House\u2019s one-bill sales pitch to the point that he made it the law\u2019s formal name.<\/p>\n

It was a departure from the name of the signature legislation from Trump\u2019s first term \u2014 the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act \u2014 which put the purported benefits of the legislation front and center.<\/p>\n

Trump said last week<\/a> that the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d talk was \u201cgood for getting it approved, but it\u2019s not good for explaining to people what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Hill Republicans bristle at the notion their massive bill isn\u2019t being well received or understood by voters \u2014 despite a spate of angry crowds<\/a> at GOP lawmakers\u2019 town halls and alarming polling<\/a> that shows dismal views of the bill\u2019s safety-net cuts and deficit impact. But they are willing to take direction from Trump on their sales pitch.<\/p>\n

House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), who helped shepherd the legislation, said it was \u201cthe substance of the bill that makes it so great\u201d but said he was open to hearing about a new sales pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how I would change any of the wins, no matter what the title of the bill is,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a big, beautiful win for the country and it\u2019s going to make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Finance Chair Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), another key leader on the bill, acknowledged that Republicans are still working to counter months of Democratic attacks. The trillions of dollars of tax cuts orchestrated by Crapo\u2019s committee were largely extensions of current law rather than brand-new reductions. Democrats have teed off on restrictions Republicans imposed on Medicaid and other safety-net programs to pay for the tax portion of the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know that the name of the bill is really that definitive about the messaging on it,\u201d he said. He added that Republicans need to \u201cmake it very clear that the so-called cuts in Medicaid were not what they are being described in the media, and in fact that they were true, waste, fraud and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s so much mischaracterization of the bill,\u201d he said. \u201cI just think it’s getting the information out.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the people granted anonymity to discuss plans for Wednesday\u2019s House GOP briefing said Democrats\u2019 attacks \u201care easily refutable and a recipe for disaster for them in the midterms, as long as Republicans execute the appropriate counter messaging.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to highlight the issues on which the party\u2019s brand and trust factor is strong, and on which issues it can be shored up with the appropriate messages to voters,\u201d the person said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile congressional Republicans\u2019 image has room for improvement with key voting blocs, congressional Democrats\u2019 image is completely and totally in the toilet,\u201d the person added.<\/p>\n

While Democrats have undertaken a national blitz to undermine what they are calling the \u201cbig, ugly bill,\u201d some Republicans have already efforted a rebrand of the massive legislation, focusing on how the bill will specifically help \u201cworking families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), a close Trump ally and senior appropriator, has been touting passage of the \u201cWorking Family Tax Cuts Bill<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But others argue it\u2019s the results of the bill that will speak for themselves, not the name. Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican who is running to be governor of Arizona, said that \u201cas the tax stuff and everything kicks in, that\u2019ll ensure the popularity of the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI usually refer to it as the BRB, the Budget Reconciliation Bill, but I don\u2019t see a problem with its name,\u201d Biggs added. \u201cMore than the name, I think the actual results will determine how popular the bill is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calen Razor and Jennifer Scholtes contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two months after President Donald Trump called it \u201cthe most popular bill ever signed,\u201d congressional Republicans are facing a sputtering effort to sell their sprawling domestic policy law \u2014 and they\u2019re getting fresh advice Wednesday from top administration officials. During a morning briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and James Blair, the president\u2019s top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}