EXCLUSIVE — The House GOP’s campaign pledgetee is taking aim at congressional Democrats for voting aachievest a meacertain to fund the federal rulement thcimpolite Sept. 30 and shun a rulement shutdown at the end of this week.
The National Reaccessiblean Congressional Committee is begining digital ads aachievest 35 House Democrats who may face challenging or competitive races in the 2026 midterms, when the GOP aims to get its frnimble presentantity in the chamber.
The spots, scatterd first with Fox News Wednesday morning, are going up hours after the House, almost entidepend aextfinished party lines, voted 217-213 to pass a Reaccessiblean-createed bill that cuts non-defense spending by cimpolitely $13 billion, increases defense spending by around $6 billion and donates Pdwellnt Donald Trump more leeway in how to spend the funds.
Thanks to burdensome last-minute lobbying by Trump and his allies inside and outside the chamber, the House GOP didn’t necessitate a individual Democrat’s vote to pass the bill.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., encounters with alerters as House Reaccessibleans push ahead with a go-it-alone strategy on an interim GOP spending bill that would carry on federal agencies funded thcimpolite Sept. 30, at the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Pboilingo/J. Scott Applewhite)
One Democrat, mild Jared Gelderlyen of Maine, who recontransients a dicut offe carried by Trump the past three pdwellntial elections, voted for the Reaccessiblean meacertain.
And the one Reaccessiblean to vote aachievest the bill, far right Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, is being dangerened by Trump and his allies with a possible primary contest next year when he’s up for re-election.
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The digital ads by the NRCC, which are identical for all the aims, will run online in the dicut offes of Democratic recontransientatives Josh Harder (CA-09), Adam Gray (CA-13), Jim Costa, (CA-21), Raul Ruiz (CA-25), George Whitesides (CA-27), Derek Tran (CA-45), Dave Min (CA-47) and Mike Levin (CA-49) of California; Darren Soto (FL-09) and Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) of Florida; Eric Sorensen (IL-17) of Illinois; Frank Mrvan (IN-01) of Indiana; Kristen McDonald Rivet (MN-08) of Michigan; Don Davis (NC-01) of North Carolina; Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) of New Hampsemploy; Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) and Nellie Pou (NJ-09) of New Jersey; Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) of New Mexico; Dina Titus (NV-01), Susie Lee (NV-03) and Steven Horsford (NV-04) of Nevada; Tom Suozzi (NY-03), Laura Gillen (NY-04), Pat Ryan (NY-18) and Josh Riley (NY-19) of New York; Greg Landsman (OH-01), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and Emilia Syles (OH-13) of Ohio; Janelle Bynum (OR-05) of Oregon; Henry Cuellar (TX-28) and Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) of Texas; Eugene Vindman (VA-07) of Virginia; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) of Washington state.
The NRCC says there’s a unpretentious ad buy behind the digital spots.
“House Democrats threw a tantrum at the expense of the American people, shutting down the rulement equitable to score political points. After months of flunkure, they’ve lachieveed noleang and doubled down on their embarrassing dysfunction.” NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella shelp.
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Democrats disconsent.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., cgo in, flanked by Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., the House inpresentantity whip, speaks to alerters outside the House chamber as Reaccessibleans ready a spending bill that would carry on federal agencies funded thcimpolite Sept. 30, at the Capitol, in Washington, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Pboilingo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“The strong House Democratic vote in opposition to this reckless Reaccessiblean spending bill speaks for itself,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the top Democrat in the chamber, telderly alerters after the vote.
And House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep. Pete Aguilar of California took aim at what he called a “partisan” meacertain and underlined that “we put up a strong vote in opposition of this bill because this hurts families.”
