Club for Growth Gives GOP 76-Page Cost-Cutting Playbook With 50 Days to Midterms

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 25

A two-page memo and 76-page policy packet sent Friday urge Republican lawmakers to make high living costs the centerpiece of their midterm message less than 50 days before voting.
Club for Growth argues prices remain permanently higher because federal expansion during the COVID era drove deficits, subsidies, mandates and supply restrictions, and it tells Republicans to stress structural cost relief rather than slower inflation.
The plan calls for spending cuts, more housing and energy supply, healthcare competition, childcare deregulation and Social Security reform, while rejecting new subsidies as a long-term driver of higher costs.
That stance could create friction inside the GOP because President Donald Trump has promised $5,000 to each American adult if Republicans win, even as some Republican lawmakers have hesitated to back the idea.
The memo gives Republicans a clearer economic platform as they fight to hold the House and Senate in a midterm environment usually shaped by voters' feelings about current prices.