Republicans from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue know they have a big problem casting a shadow over the GOP’s 2026 midterm-election prospects. The second Trump administration’s chief legislative product, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act , is not popular. There’s evidence of that in every direction; one prominent example is a Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll in June:

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of the public holds unfavorable views of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” passed last month by the House, nearly twice the share who view the bill favorably (35%), a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds.

The budget reconciliation bill that includes tax and budget cuts — much of which affect health care — is viewed unfavorably by large majorities of Democrats (85%) and independents (71%), but

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