Major push to protect and renew Trump tax cuts launched by powerful conservative group

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 tax cuts passed in the law. President-elect Trump during his first administration.

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the influential and deep grassroots network founded by the billionaire Koch Brothers, announces it will invest $20 million to launch a broad campaign to urge the extension of Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

The campaign, which includes an advertising blitz starting this week in all 50 states, was first shared with Fox News on Monday.

“Americans must come together and say in Washington that now is not the time to raise taxes. By extending and improving Trump’s tax cuts, we can make America more affordable, create more opportunity and rekindle the American dream,” the narrator in one of the AFP. argue the ads.

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The 2017 law revised the tax code of the nation and gave nearly every taxpayer a financial break. Many of the provisions are scheduled to expire at the end of this year, which would likely mean increased taxes for many Americans if Congress cannot pass legislation to extend the cuts.

AFP says Congress “faces a countdown to a crisis that threatens the family budgets of virtually every American.”

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 history of the United States.

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“Renewing the TCJA must be a top priority so we can ensure that this landmark achievement continues to fuel decades of economic prosperity, and the AFP is fully committed to mobilizing millions to ensure it is done,” Seidel told Fox News in a statement.

AFP Vice President of Government Affairs Akash Chougule argued that the expiration of the tax cuts would “result in crippling tax increases for millions of families,” but by “expanding and improving the TCJA , we can make America more affordable, create more opportunity.” and rekindle the American dream.”

The group, and its aligned political wing, has a broad grassroots network across the country that has reached close to 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)

says the AFP will reactivate its grassroots army “to ensure that pro-growth tax reform is a top priority in Congress” through “calls to lawmakers, community phone banks and 20,000 constituent door knocks planned 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 that would suffer if Congress does not renews Trump’s tax cuts”. .”

Also used: national and state opinion pieces, television and radio interviews, direct mail efforts, and AFP’s highly visible podcast.

During his campaign last year to win back his old White House job, Trump repeatedly pledged to extend his tax cuts.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 16, 2024, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP/Evan Vucci)

No Democrats voted for the original tax cuts, which were passed when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, as they once again do.

While GOP House and Senate leaders prioritize extending the tax cuts, the huge price tag for extending them, which would likely add more to the nation’s $2 trillion deficit, is causing divisions among congressional Republicans.

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While AFP had its differences with Trump during his first administration, he was a big 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, when the race for the GOP presidential nomination began 2024. Haley was Trump’s last remaining challenger, but after he ended his bid for the White House, the AFP concentrated its political efforts on the annulment votes.