The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking the lead in helping congressional Republican sell President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act to a skeptical public after this year’s bruising battle over deep Medicaid cuts tarnished the public image of President Trump’s signature legislative accomplishment.

The U.S. Chamber, one of the nation’s pre-eminent business groups, plans to hold 100 round-table discussions about the trillions of dollars in assorted tax cuts and tax incentives in the law, which Republicans hope will spur economic growth for years to come.

Republican strategists want to avoid the mistakes made during Trump’s first term, when strategists now believe they didn’t do enough to sell Trump’s landmark 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act before the 2018 midterm election.

The GOP paid the political price during Trump’s first midterms when Democrats picked up 41 House seats and captured control of the lower chamber.

Some early polling shows that Americans have a largely negative view of the law after Democrats spent months highlighting cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), cuts that led some Republicans such as Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) to vote against it.

Tillis, after announcing his opposition to the bill, decided not to run for a third Senate term and Collins faces a tough re-election race next year.

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