Republicans celebrate end of recess with resolution praising themselves

House Republicans marked the end of their latest recess by praising themselves for passing the One Big Beautiful Bill act last summer.

But they refused to call the One Big Beautiful Bill by the name they gave it a year ago, when they thought it was a beautiful public relations gimmick.

By September, when they realized the One Big Beautiful Bill was unpopular, they began to call it the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.

They sought to correct the public relations disaster of the beautiful name chosen to please Donald Trump simply by slapping a new title on it.

In an attempt to erase his history with the One Big Beautiful Bill name, Sen. Dan Sullivan concealed this July 28 letter that referred to the One Big Beautiful Bill act 101 times over the course of 25 single-spaced pages.

A new version of Sullivan’s letter, written three months later but backdated to July 28, removed all 101 mentions of the One Big Beautiful Bill act.

Sullivan’s revised letter uses the fake name, which the Republicans think sounds better. The fake name is as fraudulent as the date on the revised letter.

The law is not about working families. The 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.

Rep. Nick Begich the Third, another one-time fan of the beautiful name, has followed the same script, a crude ploy to create the appearance the bill was all about tax cuts for working families.

On Wednesday, Colorado Democrat Joe Neguse called out the Republicans for the phony name they invented for the beautiful bill. He said it was a waste of time to approve this non-binding resolution congratulating themselves. The fake name appears in the resolution 18 times.

“Republicans control the floor. They could put a bill on the floor to address cost of living issues. They could put a bill on the floor to address soaring gas prices. They could put a bill on the floor to address rising health care costs,” Neguse said. “But instead we’re here to debate a commemorative resolution. It is absurd.” 

The speaker pro tempore claimed the “Working Families Tax Cuts Act” was the original name of the bill, but that is not true.

“That is not the name of the bill,” Neguse said. “The one phrase that you will not find in the entirety of the bill is Working Families Tax cuts Madame Speaker. It’s nowhere. I checked.”

He said a “marketing guru” probably came up with the name and may have proposed something like this: “New name. Resolution honoring that new name. That’ll convince them. I’m sure that will get the American public on our side.”