Top GOP group pumps $37M into fight on key issue dominating midterm races: 'Much more to come'

America Action Network (AAE), a conservative nonprofit advocacy group associated with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has surpassed $37 million in messaging on cost-of-living issues, according to its leadership."The cost of living is the number one issue on the minds of working families right now.

American Action Network invested $37 million, highlighting how conservative policies deliver real relief," Chris Winkelman, AAE’s president, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.The renewed spending further solidifies affordability as a key issue that is expected to play a pivotal role in the 2026 midterms.While inflation has risen in recent months, AAE believes that Republicans can continue to press the affordability message as an effective way to reach voters and have highlighted the issue in several ads, narrowing in on the work Republicans have done through Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill.

PENCE LAUNCHES GOP MESSAGING BLITZ ON ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL’ AHEAD OF MIDTERMSThe group has been advancing messaging on the bill since it was passed in July of last year."The American comeback is here. President Trump and House Republicans are delivering for the American people, keeping their promises and delivering the change they demanded.

Giving working families the tax cut ever, cutting taxes on tips and overtime and strengthening our border," an ad states."It’s a new America," the added continued.A recent Fox News poll shows 58 percent of voters view cost of living as their top economic worry, up from 50 percent of voters in Fox’s February poll.

Democrats have also targeted affordability, pointing to President Donald Trump’s promises of lowering everyday costs that have run into hurdles amid the fallout of the war in Iran and higher gas prices. Inflation rose 4.2% in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — a data point House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.

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