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So carrying this hypothetical scenario out over a couple of cycles, the "we demand a repeal" message works, we win the House & the Senate in 2026, use reconciliation to repeal the bill, Trump vetoes it, and we don't have the votes to override.

Dem voters are upset that the bill isn't repealed, so in 2028, we keep the House & Senate, and win the Presidency, and the bill is repealed. Middle income families who have been told for years that they don't receive any benefit in the tax cuts suddenly see their paychecks go down by a few hundred dollars a month and say "WTF?".

If we're going for a repeal message, I would target the repeal to the part of the bill that kept tax cuts at the high end; stick with President Biden's message of not raising taxes on any incomes of $200,000 or less ($400,000 or less for couples), and let the top brackets go back up.

And of course repeal the cuts to Medicaid/Medicare.