Republicans were left "frustrated" by President Donald Trump's new marching orders, according to a report Tuesday.
Trump and the GOP know they face a mounting challenge with the midterms just over a year away, and he's demanded Republicans help sell his marquee spending package known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.
The White House is attempting to rebrand the deeply unpopular legislation as a “working families” law, Semafor reported Tuesday evening.
And not everyone in the GOP was thrilled at a weekly private meeting on Tuesday.
“Everyone was a little frustrated with the rebranding part of it,” Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) told the outlet. “To try and rebrand something when you had every Republican member of Congress out there pounding on it since January, pretty much — it’s pretty hard to reverse that.”
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told the outlet that his party is facing rough waters ahead.
“The headwinds that matter the most to an election are how American citizens are feeling about things, not so much the official numbers as people’s situation,” he said. “I just talked to a group of farmers who are feeling pretty tough right now because they’re not selling their products.”
The mounting frustrations came the same day a major new economic report was released, which revised U.S. job growth figures and revealed that the labor market was much weaker than previously believed.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics published preliminary revisions to payroll data, showing that the economy added nearly 1 million fewer jobs during the year ending in March compared to previous estimates. It marked the largest downward revision on record.