Vance to travel to Pennsylvania to tout passage of 'big, beautiful bill'

Vice President Vance will travel to Pennsylvania next week to tout the benefits of the massive reconciliation package signed into law last week by President Trump.

Vance will visit West Pittston, Pa., next Wednesday, the vice president's office announced. He is expected to extol the "one big, beautiful bill" Congress passed last week and that Trump signed at the White House on the Fourth of July.

The vice president's travels are a sign that the administration may be ramping up its efforts to hit the road and sell the legislation, which polling has shown is unpopular with many Americans.

The legislation contains numerous major campaign promises from Trump’s 2024 bid for the White House. It extends the tax cuts Trump signed into law in 2017, which were set to expire later this year.

The bill provides a $170 billion increase in funding for a border wall, immigration enforcement and deportations. It provides $150 billion in new defense spending for priorities like shipbuilding and a “Golden Dome” missile defense project. 

Democrats have seized on how the bill contains cuts to low-income health and nutrition programs — reductions designed to help offset the loss of revenues from the tax cuts but that are also expected to eliminate health coverage for millions of people.