New reporting from The Hill highlights the Alaska Democratic Party’s “Send Sullivan Your Receipts” campaign which  showcases his price-hiking agenda that has raised the cost of healthcare, gas, and groceries.

Last week, flyers were placed around grocery stores and gas stations in Anchorage that ask Alaskans to submit their sky-high receipts to Dan Sullivan so he can see the consequences of his price-hikes. On sky-high grocery costs, a retired teacher told Alaska Democrats “I don’t know how regular people out there that don’t have any income […] can afford it.”

The Hill: Democratic Senate candidates hammer Republicans over ‘big, beautiful bill’ fallout

By Helen Huiskes

July 7, 2026

• President Trump and Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has become a weapon of choice for Democrats in their battle to win back power in Congress.

• A year after Republicans muscled the massive reconciliation bill to Trump’s desk, Democratic candidates in the most competitive Senate races are blasting their Republican opponents over their support for the tax cuts package.

• That package, officially called H.R. 1, was controversial at the time, even within the Republican Party, over the projected loss of Medicaid and food aid for Americans due to cuts to those programs. Several Republicans warned of the political consequences of hundreds of thousands of constituents losing those benefits.

• But Republicans ultimately passed the bill and trumpeted the tax cuts and other provisions as wins for working people.

• A year later, national Democrats and candidates in the key swing races are making sure voters know how many people in their states have lost Medicaid benefits or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dollars since enactment, what hospitals and clinics have closed or been in trouble in their state, and how the Republican on the ballot is complicit in all of it.

• H.R. 1 was the big-ticket legislative achievement of Republicans’ first year of a power trifecta. It was a victory for Republican priorities like lowering taxes. But GOP lawmakers almost immediately struggled to sell the bill to voters, despite rebranding it as the Working Families Tax Cut Act.

• And now Democrats are now digging in with ads and campaign trail messages that tie vulnerable Republicans specifically — and the party generally — to the less popular effects of H.R. 1, which include the changes to who is eligible for Medicaid and food assistance benefits.

• New efforts to hit Republicans with fresh attacks on that bill are popping up around the country with a few months to go before Election Day.

• In Alaska, the state’s Democrats launched a flyer campaign in grocery stores around the state encouraging customers to “Send Dan Sullivan Your Receipts,” linking them to a survey where they can report dissatisfaction with grocery costs. The flyers remind voters that Sullivan voted for the food assistance benefits changes in H.R. 1.

• A Washington Post analysis found that Democrats were talking more than Republicans about H.R. 1, which was supposed to be a boon for Republicans’ messaging. Only 25 congressional Republicans talked about it in June, compared to 52 Democrats, according to the Post data. Overall, Republicans’ mentions of the package have slowly declined since last July when it became law.

• Republicans still insist the tax cuts for higher-wage earners and corporations in the package are going to be a central facet of their midterm messaging. Some of the Senate candidates in the most high-profile races posted on social media last week touting the anniversary of H.R. 1 passing Congress.

• Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who is trailing his Democratic opponent, former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), in some recent polls, posted a video on X detailing ways H.R. 1 had benefited Alaska.

• With relatively few wins to take on the campaign trail and contending with rising costs and an unpopular Iran war, Republicans’ success in keeping or flipping Senate seats may rise and fall at least in part on their ability to convince voters that H.R. 1 was more good than bad.