{"id":1055720,"date":"2025-08-22T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1055720"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:16:44","slug":"vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, JD Vance traveled to Georgia in an attempt to rebrand Donald Trump\u2019s disastrous budget bill as a \u201cworking families tax cut.\u201d But here\u2019s the truth: Working families are getting screwed by Trump\u2019s unaffordable agenda, while his billionaire buddies and donors get richer from their new, permanent, massive tax cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Rapid Response Director Kendall Witmer released the following statement:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFresh off his summer of vacationing, JD Vance\u2019s first public task was to try and dupe the American people about Donald Trump\u2019s billionaire-first budget bill. He failed miserably. No amount of Vance\u2019s spin can cover up the truth that the bill is the largest cut to health care in history, while working families are still drowning in sky-high prices. Vance can lie all he wants, but there\u2019s no covering up the fact that Trump\u2019s catastrophic economic agenda is rewriting the rules to favor billionaires and elites \u2014 while working families get left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s economy is in the toilet. Despite saying he would lower costs on Day One of his presidency, prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/21\/business\/prices-economy-back-to-school-tariffs\">in stores<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rising-energy-prices-voting-issue-2025-elections\/\">on electricity bills<\/a> continue to soar, it\u2019s getting harder and harder to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-21\/us-jobless-claims-rise-continuing-filings-highest-since-2021\">find a job<\/a>, and buying a home remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/home-purchase-cancellations-july-2025\/\">out of reach<\/a> for too many Americans. Trump\u2019s unhinged trade war has also put businesses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/20\/business\/trump-china-tariffs-american-importers.html\">survival mode<\/a>, and manufacturing employment has fallen by <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/MANEMP#\">28,000<\/a> jobs since he took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s budget bill is the biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/article\/finance\/economy\/rich-obbb-boost\/\">wealth transfer<\/a> in history from working and middle-class families to the richest Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/health\/by-the-numbers-senate-republican-reconciliation-bill-takes-health-coverage-away\">17 million<\/a> Americans will have their health care ripped away; more than <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=90379082c3d9e6a03baf3f677&amp;id=a638cfad40&amp;e=fbe7a1048d\">one in four<\/a> nursing homes and over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/markey-leader-schumer-wyden-merkley-release-data-detailing-hundreds-of-rural-hospitals-across-us-at-risk-due-to-republican-health-care-cuts\">300 rural hospitals are at risk<\/a> of closure; and more than 22 million families will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/urban-wire\/cuts-snap-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-would-widen-persistent-gap-between-benefits-and#:~:text=An%20Urban%20Institute%20analysis%20of,all%20of%20their%20SNAP%20benefits.\">lose<\/a> food assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite how they try to rebrand their signature achievement, the Trump-Vance budget bill is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gelliottmorris.com\/p\/one-big-unpopular-bill\">most unpopular budget<\/a> on record \u2014 and Republicans know it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, JD Vance traveled to Georgia in an attempt to rebrand Donald Trump\u2019s disastrous budget bill as a \u201cworking families tax cut.\u201d But here\u2019s the truth: Working families are getting screwed by Trump\u2019s unaffordable agenda, while his billionaire buddies and donors get richer from their new, permanent, massive tax cuts. In response, DNC Rapid Response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T16:55:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-22T20:16:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1101\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"483\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Adrianna Tomasello\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/\",\"name\":\"Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy - Democrats\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-22T16:55:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-22T20:16:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/00292e8c1694c8322513663ebb5f246f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png\",\"width\":1101,\"height\":483},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/\",\"name\":\"Democrats\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/00292e8c1694c8322513663ebb5f246f\",\"name\":\"Adrianna Tomasello\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1caa4627f6a3abd6a1daf936cdbaf4406f86f7fcb6a945d915b685b27e7f9a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1caa4627f6a3abd6a1daf936cdbaf4406f86f7fcb6a945d915b685b27e7f9a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Adrianna Tomasello\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/author\/tomaselloa\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy - Democrats","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_site_name":"Democrats","article_published_time":"2025-08-22T16:55:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-22T20:16:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1101,"height":483,"url":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Adrianna Tomasello","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Adrianna Tomasello","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/","url":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/","name":"Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy - Democrats","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024","datePublished":"2025-08-22T16:55:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-22T20:16:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/00292e8c1694c8322513663ebb5f246f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png","width":1101,"height":483},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/vacation-vance-fails-to-spin-disastrous-budget-bill-while-americans-struggle-under-trumps-failing-economy\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Vacation Vance Fails To Spin Disastrous Budget Bill While Americans Struggle Under Trump\u2019s Failing Economy"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/","name":"Democrats","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/00292e8c1694c8322513663ebb5f246f","name":"Adrianna Tomasello","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1caa4627f6a3abd6a1daf936cdbaf4406f86f7fcb6a945d915b685b27e7f9a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1caa4627f6a3abd6a1daf936cdbaf4406f86f7fcb6a945d915b685b27e7f9a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Adrianna Tomasello"},"url":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/author\/tomaselloa\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055721,"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055720\/revisions\/1055721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}