“While the election is still more than a year away, this August in-district work period is an opportunity to go home and sell your work to your constituents. With the One Big Beautiful Bill signed into law by President Trump just a few weeks ago, this is a critical opportunity to continue to define how this legislation will help every voter and push back on Democrat fearmongering. As you head back to your district, the NRCC has prepared the following guide to help you ensure you maximize your time,” says a memo from the NRCC to members urging them to not use the time off relaxing and going on vacation and shit but trying to help sell a bill that they didn’t actually want to vote for. This is about five months after they told members to stop holding town halls, lol.
The memo’s pretty long but there’s some funny shit in it, like these bullet points all linked to a May 9th Breitbart article about poll-tested pablum continuing to test well in internal NRCC polling, nearly two months before the bill was fully written and passed. Almost like they understood that more recent polling over the bill is not so great and in fact fucking terrible. “Democrats are fearmongering about Republican efforts to strengthen Medicaid, but we can’t let them control the narrative. Voters back Republicans’ commonsense reforms: • 86 percent support removing deceased/ineligible recipients • 72 percent support work requirements • 71 percent believe there is widespread fraud in Medicaid… The playbook is simple: focus on President Trump and House Republicans’ efforts to improve voters’ everyday lives and show the contrast with out of touch Democrats.”
Yes, three links to the very same stupid Breitbart article. The top pic in it is Elon Musk wearing a MAGA hat, chosen to generate excitement over his then-ongoing war against “waste, fraud, and abuse” in federal government. Before he said he hated the bill and that Trump is in the Epstein files.
Speaking of which, the dead sex-trafficker’s name does not appear anywhere the memo, possibly because the memo itself less a set of directives to members but a purposely leaked performative effort to reassure donors that members have been told to keep their eye on the ball.
There is another important omission in the part that encourages members to be creative in planning public appearances: “Identify themes that you want to drive in your district that are relevant to your constituents: cutting taxes, securing the border, lowering costs, or facilitating local projects. Think of creative events that make your work in Congress tangible for voters: • Host a small business round table to discuss critical tax cuts • Visit a local hospital and discuss how you voted for no tax on overtime • Stop by a restaurant to highlight your vote on no tax on tips • Work the counter at a local store and chat about your work to lower costs • Host a press conference with a major project as the backdrop to speak about your efforts to bring home funding for your district.”
Whoever wrote that list definitely fucked up and forgot to add “Please have your advance teams do adequate research and make sure the hospital isn’t about to close because of Medicaid cuts.”