NRCC launches Tax Day ads targeting 28 Democrats over tax cuts vote

FIRST ON FOX: On the eve of the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns, House Republicans are lashing out at Democrats for voting against the GOP tax cuts signed into law by President Donald Trump last summer.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the campaign arm of the House Republican Party, launched ads Tuesday targeting 28 potentially vulnerable Democrats in this year’s midterms for “voting for the biggest tax hike since World War II and making life harder for working families.”

The digital ads, released on the eve of Tax Day 2026, come as the GOP struggles to protect its fragile legislative majority in the midterms, when the ruling party faces traditional political headwinds and typically loses congressional seats. For weeks, Republicans have been highlighting budget cuts, which they believe will give them a political boost with voters.

“This Tax Day, remember who made it worse,” the commercials’ narrator says.

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An exterior view of the House side of the United States Capitol, January 12, 2026, in Washington, DC (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)

The narrator boasted that “Republicans fought to protect your hard-earned wages,” and argued that Democrats targeted in the spots “sid up with Bernie and AOC to vote against a crucial tax break for you. Higher costs, less freedom, more pressure on you… This tax day, remember.”

The tax cuts were a key part of the Republicans’ massive domestic policy measure, which was passed almost entirely along party lines by the Republican-controlled House and Senate.

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The law is packed with Trump’s 2024 campaign promises and priorities for his second term, including extending the tax cuts the president signed in 2017 and eliminating taxes on tips and overtime.

“Vulnerable Democrats have made a choice: higher taxes, tighter budgets and more pain for working families. Voters will make theirs,” NRC spokesperson Mike Marinella said in a statement.

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But the rival Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) accuses the Republican Party’s tax policies of being unpopular.

“The American people overwhelmingly hate the Republican tax scam,” DCCC spokesperson Viet Shelton told Fox News Digital. “No amount of political manipulation of Tax Day will change the reality that hard-working families are increasingly angry at House Republicans for raising the price of gas, groceries and health care, while billionaires enjoy massive tax breaks.”

A record 70% of voters surveyed in a national Fox News poll late last month said the taxes they pay were “too high,” an 11-point increase from the previous year, and the highest level of dissatisfaction since the question was first asked in 2004.

NRCC’s digital ads, supported by a modest purchase, target Democratic Reps. Adam Gray, Derek Tran and Dave Min of California, Darren Soto and Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Frank Mrvan of Indiana, Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan, Don Davis of North Carolina, Nellie Pou of New Jersey, Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico and Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford of Nevada.

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Also targeted are Reps. Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen and Josh Riley of New York, Greg Landsman, Marcy Kaptur and Emilia Sykes of Ohio, Henry Cuellar and Vicente González of Texas, Eugene Vindman of Virginia and Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez of Washington state.

The ads will also run in open Democratic-controlled seats in Maine’s 2nd District, New Hampshire’s 1st District, New Jersey’s 11th District, and Texas’ 9th and 35th Districts.