Pro-GOP group targets Pelosi's 'Socialist Spending Spree' with launch of new website
Conservative advocacy group takes aim at Democrats' multitrillion-dollar spending package
EXCLUSIVE: A leading conservative issue advocacy group is launching a new website spotlighting what it calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Socialist Spending Spree" as it targets the Democrats’ massive, multitrillion-dollar government spending plans.
The launch of the new website, SocialistSpendingSpree.com, which was shared first with Fox News on Tuesday by the pro-GOP American Action Network (AAN), is part of the outside group’s push this year to torpedo the social spending, human infrastructure and climate change bill the White House and congressional Democrats are struggling to pass into law.
CONSERVATIVE GROUP LAUNCHES MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR PUSH TO DERAIL DEMOCRATS' MASSIVE SPENDING PACKAGE
Congressional Democrats – who hold razor-thin majorities in both the House and Senate – are aiming to pass their package along party lines through a parliamentary process known as reconciliation.
If it becomes law, the measure would become the biggest expansion of the federal government’s social safety net in many decades. To pay for their plan, Democrats are calling for tax hikes on corporations and the wealthiest earners, as well as beefing up the IRS in order to generate more revenue by cracking down on people who cheat or underpay on their taxes.
But AAN communications director Calvin Moore charges that "any Member that votes for the socialist spending spree is going to have a tough time explaining why working Americans and small business should foot the bill for handouts to Nancy Pelosi and her liberal cronies."
American Action Network, a leading conservative issue advocacy group, is launching a new website spotlighting what it calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s "Socialist Spending Spree" as it targets the Democrats’ massive, multitrillion- dollar spending p (American Action Network)
The new website showcases what AAN says are unpopular elements of the spending bill, including "tax credits to elite liberal universities, tax breaks for rich people to buy electric cars." Also spotlighted is what some Republicans have derided as "Pelosi’s park" – $200 million in federal funding for the Presidio, an historic military base that was turned into a 1,500-acre park and development in prime real estate in San Francisco, which is located within the speaker’s congressional district.
The launch of the website follows internal polling released last week by AAN that suggests the Democrats' spending package is unpopular in key congressional swing districts. Republicans need a net gain of just five seats to win back the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections. AAN has spent roughly $14 million already this year to run ads targeting potentially vulnerable Democrats over their party’s spending package.
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The White House and congressional Democrats have been unable to come to agreement on an overall price tag and what’s included in their social spending and climate change package, due to disagreements between party moderates and progressives. The intra-party warfare has also held up passage of a separate $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Responding to the new website, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Chris Taylor argued that "Republicans’ big money allies are increasingly desperate."
"They know the American people overwhelmingly support President Biden’s vision to make historic investments in lowering prescription drug costs, opening access to childcare, securing America’s energy independence, and ensuring the uber-wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. House Democrats are going to focus on delivering for the American people. Voters want solutions, not cheap, gimmicky websites," Taylor told Fox News.