Overview

• Visiting a Peachtree City manufacturing plant, Vice President JD Vance promoted the “working families tax cut” message for Trump’s newly enacted package and called a recent CBO analysis “absolutely atrocious.”
• The CBO report found the top 10% of earners would gain an average of $13,600 annually over the next decade while the bottom 10% would lose about $1,200 per year, challenging the administration’s claims.
• Vance highlighted provisions he says cut taxes on tips and overtime and expand the child tax credit, and he paired the pitch with promises of tariffs and incentives aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing.
• Georgia Democrats pointed to local fallout, citing Evans Memorial Hospital’s CEO blaming the law for a roughly $3.3 million budget shortfall that could force service cuts, alongside warnings about Medicaid and SNAP reductions.
• Vance also defended the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., urging cities to follow that example as Republicans test midterm themes on crime and the economy.