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AllJuly 15, 2025
New Inflation Report: Trump’s Tariffs Are Driving Up Costs – Working-Class People Are Paying the Price
Washington, D.C — Today’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) report confirms what working-class families across the country are already feeling: Trump’s reckless tariffs are driving up costs and making life more expensive for working families. Republicans in Congress have repeatedly endorsed these cost-raising tariffs, and their recently passed tax law will only make things worse by […]
July 14, 2025
Republicans Tap Professional Corporate Tax Dodging Consultant to Manage Implementation of Their Pro-Billionaire Tax Law
Washington, D.C — Not content to simply pass more tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, Republicans have installed Ken Kies – a career lobbyist who has spent decades helping the ultra-wealthy and large corporations dodge taxes – to oversee the Treasury Department office responsible for implementing their new tax law. Non-partisan analyses have shown […]
July 11, 2025
Republicans in Congress Are “Dismayed” By Trump’s Tariffs…That They’ve Repeatedly Voted to Support
Washington, D.C — According to new reporting, Republicans in Congress are supposedly “dismayed” by the rising prices and economic chaos caused by Trump’s tariffs and ongoing threats of additional tariffs. But their concern rings hollow since they have had multiple opportunities to halt these tariffs and voted to support Trump’s power to raise the cost […]
July 9, 2025
ICYMI – Punchbowl News: Republicans Are Already Getting Hammered Over the OBBB
Washington, D.C — Yesterday morning, Punchbowl News highlighted the hammering congressional Republicans are taking for their votes to cut Medicaid and raise energy prices while also making devastating cuts to SNAP, all to hand even more tax breaks to billionaires. Punchbowl highlighted the pressure congressional Republicans are under from local hospitals now at risk of […]
July 8, 2025
New Ad: Unrig Our Economy Launches Ad Holding Congressman Rob Bresnahan Accountable For Voting To Rip Away Pennsylvanians’ Health Care
Washington, D.C — Today, Unrig Our Economy is launching a new ad with a seven-figure ad buy in Pennsylvania’s Eighth Congressional District, holding Congressman Rob Bresnahan (PA-08) accountable for voting for the Republican Tax Law late last week. This law could leave 17 million Americans without health care while funneling billions of dollars in tax […]
July 7, 2025
Thanks to Republicans In Congress, Private Jet Owners Finally Get a Tax Break…While 17 Million Lose Health Care
Washington D.C — Now that Republicans in Congress have passed their historically unpopular tax law, which could leave 17 million Americans without lifesaving health care, we are learning more about who the winners are (Hint: it’s not the working class). Tucked away in this law is a provision that gives the ultra-wealthy a tax break […]
July 3, 2025
NEW ADS: Unrig Our Economy Launches Ads Holding 12 House Republicans Accountable For Vote To Cut Health Care, Gut SNAP, and Increase Energy Costs
Washington, D.C. — Today, Unrig Our Economy is launching ads in 12 congressional districts to hold House Republicans accountable for their votes to pass the Republican Tax Scam – which even some Republicans have admitted will cut Medicaid and raise energy prices while also making devastating cuts to SNAP, all to hand even more tax breaks to billionaires. Ads will target the following districts: […]
July 3, 2025
New Ad: Unrig Our Economy Launches Ad Holding Senator Ernst Accountable for Just Voting for the Republican Tax Scam
Washington D.C — Just days after her support for the callous Republican Tax Scam, Unrig Our Economy is launching a new ad holding Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) accountable for voting to leave over 100,000 Iowans without health care to hand out tax breaks to billionaires. The ad features three of Senator Ernst’s constituents who could see the impact of the bill’s disastrous Medicaid cuts […]
July 2, 2025
16 House Republicans Claimed They Wanted to Protect Medicaid From the Senate’s Steeper Cuts. Will Any Follow Through?
Washington, D.C. — Last week, 16 House Republicans, led by Congressman David Valadao (CA-22), wrote a blistering letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune criticizing the additional Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the Republican Tax Scam that is now up for consideration in the House. In the letter, these […]