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FIRST ON FOX: A powerful fiscally conservative political advocacy group is launching what it says is an eight-figure campaign to urge Congress to “protect prosperity” by renewing the sweeping tax cuts enacted by President-elect Trump during his first administration.
Americans for Prosperity (AFP), The influential, wealthy grassroots network founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, announces it will spend $20 million to launch a wide-ranging campaign to urge the extension of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). ) Trump signature.
The campaign, which includes an ad campaign starting this week in all 50 states, was first shared with Fox News on Monday.
“Americans must come together and tell Washington that now is not the time to raise taxes. By expanding and improving Trump’s tax cuts, we can make America more affordable, create greater opportunity and rekindle the American dream,” he narrates in an interview with AFP. The ads argue.
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The 2017 law revised the nation tax code and gave a financial break to almost all taxpayers. Many of the provisions are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, which would likely result in a tax increase for many Americans if Congress is unable to pass legislation to extend the cuts.
AFP states that Congress “faces a countdown to a crisis that threatens the household budgets of virtually all Americans.”
The group also said millions of Americans will pay an extra $1,500 or more next year in taxes if the cuts are not extended.
AFP President and CEO Emily Seidel noted that her group worked alongside Trump to pass the tax cuts last decade, calling them the most pro-growth tax reform in U.S. history.
“Renewing the TCJA must be a top priority so we can ensure this historic achievement continues to fuel decades of economic prosperity, and the AFP is fully committed to mobilizing millions of people to ensure it gets done,” Seidel told Fox News in a release.
AFP Vice President of Government Affairs Akash Chougule said the expiration of the tax cuts would “lead to crippling tax increases for millions of families,” but “by expanding and improving the TCJA, we can make America more affordable, create greater opportunities, and rekindle the American dream.
The group, and its aligned political wing, has a broad grassroots network across the country that it claims has reached nearly 30 million voters in the past two years.
Americans for Prosperity, an influential conservative advocacy group, is launching a massive campaign to urge Congress to extend Trump’s tax cuts. (Americans for prosperity)
AFP says will once again activate its grassroots army “to ensure that pro-growth tax reform is Congress’ top priority” through “calls to legislators, community phone banks, and 20,000 doorstep contacts with voters expected in February alone.”
The group says its campaign will also include more than 1,000 meetings in congressional offices, events in the district with its activists, roundtables with job creators and “shared testimonies from real American families and businesses who would suffer if Congress does not renew the cuts.” Trump’s tax bill. “.
Also used are national and state opinion pieces, radio and television interviews, direct mail efforts and the highly visible AFP podcast.
During his campaign last year to regain his old White House job, Trump repeatedly promised to extend his tax cuts.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on December 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Evan Vucci)
No Democrats voted for the original tax cuts, which passed when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, as they do again.
While House and Senate Republican leaders are prioritizing extending the tax cuts, the enormous cost of extending them, which would likely further increase the country’s $2 trillion deficit, is causing divisions among congressional Republicans. .
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While AFP had differences with Trump during his first administration, it was a leading supporter of his tax cuts as well as his bipartisan criminal justice reform bill.
But the political wing of the group, which has long supported fiscally conservative causes and candidates, endorsed and supported Trump’s rival, Nikki Haley, in late 2023 as the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination began. Haley was the Trump’s last rival, but after she ended her bid for the White House, the AFP focused its political efforts on the negative elections.
