{"id":2490368,"date":"2025-09-24T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-campaign-arm-targets-gop-over-shutdown-in-new-ad-buy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:43:18","slug":"house-democrats-campaign-arm-targets-gop-over-shutdown-in-new-ad-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-campaign-arm-targets-gop-over-shutdown-in-new-ad-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats&#8217; campaign arm targets GOP over shutdown in new ad buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrats-campaign-arm-targets-gop-over-shutdown-in-new-ad-buy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2490368&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the campaign arm of House Democrats, is launching a digital advertising campaign targeting 35 Republican members of the House over the impending government shutdown scheduled for October 1, 2025, and the expiration of obamacare tax credits at the end of the year. The ads focus on 29 competitive Republican-held districts and six more solidly Republican districts that Democrats consider vulnerable ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The DCCC accuses House Republicans of deliberately blocking efforts to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, which are set to expire, causing escalating healthcare costs or loss of coverage for millions of Americans. While extending these tax credits is generally seen as a bipartisan issue,many Republican leaders have shown reluctance to continue COVID-19-era health provisions enacted under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans argue thay want a &#8220;clean&#8221; continuing resolution that maintains spending levels set under Biden, aiming to avoid the political damage of a government shutdown. though, the shutdown threat poses a risk especially to Republicans in swing districts, who face criticism for refusing to act on healthcare subsidies relief. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >parties risk political fallout depending<\/a> on how blame for a potential shutdown is assigned, with Democrats also cautious about alienating their base if they compromise with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Republican spokespersons criticize Democrats for using the shutdown threat to push policies favoring illegal immigrants and accuse them of holding working families &#8220;hostage&#8221; for taxpayer-funded giveaways.The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hypocritical-dems-try-to-keep-gop-appointees-off-election-board\/\" title=\"Hypocritical Dems Try To Keep GOP Appointees Off Election Board\">situation highlights ongoing partisan conflict<\/a> over government funding, healthcare subsidies, and political strategy ahead of future elections. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">House Democrats&rsquo; campaign arm targets GOP over shutdown and expiring Obamacare credits<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2238426\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash;<\/strong> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dccc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee<\/a> is launching a four<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warnock-calls-for-ending-fossil-fuels-in-unearthed-video\/\" title=\"Warnock Calls for Ending Fossil Fuels in Unearthed Video\">-figure digital ad buy<\/a> on Wednesday targeting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Republicans<\/a> on the looming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government shutdown<\/a> and expiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Obamacare<\/a> tax credits. <\/p>\n<p>The ad buy, shared first with the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>, is hitting the 35 Republicans who are considered &ldquo;Districts in Play&rdquo; for Democrats heading into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2026-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2026 midterm elections<\/a>. The targets are the 29 seats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/house-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rated competitive<\/a>&nbsp;by the nonpartisan&nbsp;<em>Cook Political Report<\/em>&nbsp;and six seats considered more solidly red.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3821368\/bill-cassidy-virginia-school-coercing-girls-abortions\/\">Cassidy investigates Virginia school after officials accused of coercing girls into getting abortions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3820711\/adelita-grijalva-wins-arizona-special-election-father-house-seat\/\">Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona special election to fill late father&rsquo;s House seat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3821179\/top-democrats-mock-trumps-health-guidance-linking-tylenol-to-autism\/\">Top Democrats mock Trump&rsquo;s health guidance linking Tylenol to autism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A sample of three ads targeting Republicans over an impending government shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025, and expiring Obamacare tax credits at the end of the year. (Provided by DCCC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An impending government shutdown on Oct. 1 has Democrats and Republicans pointing fingers at one another as lawmakers left Washington after a short-term spending deal failed in the Senate. The DCCC, which is House Democrats&rsquo; campaign arm, argues Republicans are waging a &ldquo;purposeful crusade&rdquo; against the country by refusing to negotiate on a plan to extend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3480412\/house-gop-weighs-save-obamacare-tax-credits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expiring subsidies in the Affordable Care Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Extending the tax credits is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3801742\/republicans-boost-democrats-demands-extend-obamacare-subsidies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bipartisan issue<\/a> across both chambers of Congress, but a majority of Republican leadership has shown little interest in extending COVID-19-era provisions that occurred under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Millions of Americans are getting hit with skyrocketing health care costs or face the loss of coverage entirely because vulnerable Republicans can&rsquo;t be bothered to fix the crisis they created,&rdquo; DCCC spokesman Viet Shelton said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side, Republicans have maintained that the seven-week continuing resolution is &ldquo;clean&rdquo; and keeps the spending levels Democrats voted for at the end of last year when former President Joe Biden was in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>A government shutdown is not something Republicans want blighting their GOP trifecta, particularly after a similar situation occurred during President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first term. It was the longest shutdown in United States history, lasting 35 days and spanning from the end of 2018 into 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the House flips to the party opposite the White House in the midterm elections. While Republicans are banking on messaging that Democrats want to use a CR to reinstate funding for illegal immigrants, voters have traditionally been prone to blame the party in charge of Washington for any shuttering of federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>For House Republicans in swing districts, this could be a risky game &mdash; particularly those who have encouraged GOP leadership to move forward with a plan to address the expiring subsidies that won&rsquo;t lead to skyrocketing healthcare costs for their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They would rather shut down the government than lift a finger to provide relief for working families,&rdquo; Shelton added. &ldquo;The DCCC is making sure voters know who&rsquo;s responsible for ripping away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jesuits-pledge-100-million-for-slavery-reparations\/\" title=\"Jesuits Pledge 0 Million For Slavery Reparations\">affordable health care<\/a> from them: Congressional Republicans.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3820876\/republicans-push-legislation-eliminate-government-shutdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">REPUBLICANS PUSH LEGISLATION TO ELIMINATE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Democrats also are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3819213\/democrats-risk-shutdown-blame-game-government-funding-hardball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at a crossroads<\/a>, as any attempt to make a deal with Republicans could anger a base that wants to see their party doing more to combat Trump and his unprecedented stretch of executive authority. <\/p>\n<p>Mike Marinella, spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told the Washington Examiner that Democrats &ldquo;know voters are furious that they voted to shut down the government.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While Republicans are fighting for our most vulnerable, House Democrats are holding working families hostage for more taxpayer-funded giveaways to criminal illegal immigrants,&rdquo; Marinella said. &ldquo;No amount of mediocre ads will cover up their failure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DCCC targets GOP over shutdown, expiring Obamacare credits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2490369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25122784815663.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[40552,4087,6203,33723,5123],"class_list":["post-2490368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ad-buy","tag-campaign","tag-gop","tag-house-democrats","tag-shutdown"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25122784815663.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490372,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490368\/revisions\/2490372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}