Overview

• Vice President JD Vance launched the White House’s first grass-roots campaign stop in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, to shape public opinion on the new budget law.
• The One Big Beautiful Bill, approved with near-unanimous GOP support, marries no taxes on tips and expanded child credits with $1.2 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and food stamps.
• Vance urged constituents to tout overtime pay deductions, small-business incentives and strengthened border security as evidence of “promises kept.”
• Polling shows 61 percent of adults oppose the law overall even as a majority support individual tax-cut provisions like child credits and tip exemptions.
• Democrats are mobilizing to make the scheduled post-midterm social safety net reductions a central theme in their 2026 campaign to reclaim congressional control.