Republicans try to bury One Big Beautiful Bill Act name
Sen. Dan Sullivan is trying to rewrite history about the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act, pretending that a 25-page form letter his office unleashed on July 28, 2025 didn’t use the letters OBBBA 101 times, and that he was already calling it the Working Families Tax Cuts Act then.
The Sullivan letter was rewritten in mid-November to erase all evidence of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act name, keeping the July 28 date and substituting the letters WFTCA in 101 places.
In case you have forgotten, the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion in the years ahead and will provide $1 trillion in tax cuts to the richest 1 percent of Americans.
While a more accurate name would be the Cutting Medicaid for Poor People and Cutting Taxes for Rich People Act, the beautiful bill was born again for advertising purposes under false pretenses.
In late summer the nationwide unpopularity of OBBBA led the Trump administration to instruct Republicans to bury the meaningless name—chosen by the best brains in the party as a tribute to Trump—and come up with something Americans might swallow.
That is how the alleged Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which provides 70 percent of its tax cuts to the richest 20 percent of Americans, came into existence. It’s an ex post facto fraud.
Below are the opening paragraphs of Sullivan’s July 28 letter praising the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Here is the full text.
This is the original letter from Sullivan sent to Alaskans defending the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
On September 1, officials of the Trump 2024 campaign told Congressional Republicans to lose the One Big Beautiful Bill Act name because people hated it.
“In a closed-door briefing called to discuss midterm congressional campaign strategy, the officials encouraged lawmakers to refer to the measure as the ‘Working Families Tax Cut Bill’ or the ‘Working Families Tax Plan,’ according to members who attended,” the New York Times reported.
Sullivan was still calling it the OBBBA in early September, but he followed orders.
In November Sullivan’s office decided to go back and erase all mention of OBBBA from his 25-page letter, substituting WFTCA, keeping the July 28 date.
Sullivan should have admitted the changes and corrected the date. As it stands now there is no hint that the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act ever existed. And no mention of why the beautiful name had to be tossed in the trash by its proponents.
Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office revised his letter months after it was sent out to pretend it was always the so-called Working Families Tax Cuts Act, not the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
When Sullivan voted for the bill in July and for months afterward, he said it was one big beautiful bill.
“My team and I worked hard to ensure the One Big Beautiful Bill protects Alaska’s most vulnerable communities,” Sullivan quoted himself in a July 1 press release.
“The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is one of the most transformative pieces of legislation for Alaska in decades,” Sullivan said in a press release sent out in early July.
“At its heart, the OBBB is a jobs bill,” said Sullivan.
“The OBBB mandates historic provisions to responsibly develop ANWR, NPR-A, and Cook Inlet,” Sullivan said.
“The OBBB also achieves the most significant spending reductions in history,” said Sullivan, a reference to the nearly $1 trillion cut to Medicaid over a decade.
Here is his One Big Beautiful Bill PowerPoint, before it became the Working Families Tax Cuts Act PowerPoint.
“I’ve never liked that title because it’s not descriptive,” Sullivan was quoted as saying. “The One Big Beautiful Bill — it didn’t describe anything. It was kind of a lot of words that meant nothing.”
A lot of words that meant nothing.
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Sen. Dan Sullivan’s website posted this last summer after the passage of the Republican One Big Beautiful Bill Act. When that name became untenable, the website was revised to feature what Republicans think is a more palatable name, the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.
