Cost Coalition Advisers Terry Holt, a Republican, and Andrew Bates, a Democrat released the following statement on new data from the nonpartisan think tank Energy Innovation  showing the economic costs of the “Big Beautiful Bill Act”: “Congress’s nonpartisan referee just confirmed what an overwhelming majority of Americans already suspected: what Donald Trump calls “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” breaks his #1 campaign promise by selling out middle class families to billionaires.

Bright America - 6/12/2025 - The Cost of Disengagement: Why Americans Are Tuning Out Politics—but Can’t Escape the Price Hikes

Cost Coalition Advisers Terry Holt, a Republican, and Andrew Bates, a Democrat released the following statement on new data from the nonpartisan think tank Energy Innovation  showing the economic costs of the “Big Beautiful Bill Act”: “In what world is it anything but self-sabotage to shrink our economy, kill jobs, shut down manufacturing, and raise energy bills - all to grow our debt with tax breaks for rich special interests? Not a single American outside Washington DC woul

MSNBC - 6/9/2025 - The Weeknight  - “Eager for a Distraction When He is Losing” Andrew Bates and Terry Holt, senior communications advisors for The Cost Coalition,  discuss how Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles is serving as  a “distraction” from his failed economic policies.

Real Clear Politics - 6/5/2025 - GOP's Megabill Would Light the Fuse on Debt Time Bomb The Moody’s downgrade was a warning sign that the United States should get its fiscal house in order, but Congress wants to double down on the very policies that got us here.