ANCHORAGE, Alaska — On Aug. 3, Alaska’s U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan posted on social media a video he recorded at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., in which he said he was preparing to return to Alaska to “keep explaining this One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“There has been nothing better in a long time for the great state of Alaska,” said Sullivan.

Every August, members of Congress return to their home districts for several weeks. This time around, the task for Sullivan, along with the two other members of Alaska’s all-Republican congressional delegation, was to sell their legislative accomplishment from the preceding month: a behemoth budget reconciliation bill that offsets the extension of tax cuts by slashing spending on Medicaid.

Alaska’s U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski faced searing criticis

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