Vice President J.D. Vance travelled to Peachtree City, Georgia, on 21 Aug 2025 to promote President Donald Trump’s newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Framing the measure as a “working-families tax cut,” Vance highlighted provisions abolishing federal taxes on overtime and tips, boosting the child tax credit and, according to Republican estimates, lifting average take-home pay by more than $10,000 a year. He also renewed attacks on Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff, who voted against the legislation, as Republicans seek to use the law as a rallying point ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The sweeping statute, signed on 4 July, makes permanent the individual and small-business reductions first enacted in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and introduces new deductions for domestically manufactured vehicles and other priorities. Supporters argue the package will spur investment and support industries ranging from auto manufacturing to rural health care through a $50 billion hospital fund. Health-policy analysts warn the law’s financing provisions could push up medical costs. Insurers’ filings compiled by KFF show proposed 2026 premium increases of about 20 percent on Affordable Care Act marketplaces; in Florida, the median jump is put at 18 percent. The rise is driven in part by the scheduled lapse of enhanced ACA tax credits at the end of 2025, a change critics say could leave many middle-income households facing premium hikes of 75 percent or more. Separate estimates published in the BMJ suggest Medicaid eligibility changes in H.R. 1 could eventually remove coverage from roughly 10 million people. Labour organisations are also bracing for fallout. On 22 Aug 2025 the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it will no longer recognise unions representing thousands of employees at agencies including the CDC and FDA, reclaiming office space and equipment used for collective-bargaining activities. The American Federation of Government Employees called the decision “illegal and immoral,” contending it reflects a broader push by the Trump administration to curb federal-worker organising rights.