Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Rep. Ashley Hinson praised President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill at her fifth annual “BBQ Bash” here last weekend, celebrating the measure’s changes to taxes on tips and other tax cuts that she says are aimed at the middle class.

But the only part of the law that really garnered applause from the mostly friendly crowd at the Iowa Republican’s event was the hundreds of billions it plows into Trump’s signature issue, immigration enforcement.

Hinson’s pitch - and the crowd’s reaction to it - hints at how GOP lawmakers plan to sell their major legislative achievement. Republicans, who expect a fierce fight to retain their single-digit House majority in the 2026 midterms, are racing to describe the legislation as spurring the economy and benefiting “working-cla

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