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(60,536 posts) Thu Apr 15, 2021, 08:45 AM Apr 2021

Conservative groups target swing Democrats in fight against infrastructure plan and taxes

Americans for Prosperity travels to Iowa, takes aim at Cindy Axne

By Kate Ackley

Posted April 15, 2021 at 5:00am

Tim Phillips, who runs the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, is going on the road to fight major elements of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan and the potential tax increases to help fund it.

He’ll be in Iowa on Monday, seeking to put pressure on Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne, who represents the southwest section of the state.

The stop in Des Moines is a sign of what’s to come across the country as the Biden administration and congressional Democrats craft a $2 trillion infrastructure-jobs-tax package. Americans for Prosperity’s burgeoning campaign is just one slice of a broader, emerging push among conservative policy groups and political networks focused on Democratic lawmakers in swing districts.

“House Democrats have been voting in such a partisan lockstep,” Phillips said, noting party-line votes this year on a COVID-19 economic measure as well as a campaign finance and voting bill known as HR 1. “They’re already overreaching where the folks back home in their districts are, so we’re sending red flags up to them.”

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