June 16, 2025
From Courier:
As chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, DelBene is tasked with recruiting and supporting candidates to take back the House in 2026.
During a recent caucus meeting at DCCC headquarters, she presented research showing that the GOP’s sweeping reconciliation bill—a “megabill” to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, increase defense and border spending, and enact historic cuts to programs like Medicaid and SNAP—is backfiring politically. Voters are increasingly turning against it as they learn more.
DelBene also pointed to growing protest activity—outside district offices, at town halls, and in cities across the country—especially over Medicaid and nutrition cuts and the Trump administration’s mass deportation operations.
She argued that the bill’s unpopularity has pushed vulnerable Republicans into defending it with lies.
“They can lie all they want, but there’s no denying the objective harm it will cause,” she said. “With this vote, vulnerable House Republicans have already sealed their political fate.”
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