'Won't have anywhere to hide': Democrats are eager to pick apart the GOP megabill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The two-week congressional recess now coming to a close gave a preview of that familiar messaging after Democrats took part in a coordinated campaign around Medicaid and Social Security and held town halls, some of them in GOP districts, where leaders talked up economic issues.
51% : They're eyeing likely changes to Medicaid in the Energy and Commerce Committee and food assistance in the Agriculture Committee as particularly ripe avenues for attack, not to mention tax provisions in Ways and Means.
51% : Party officials are essentially planning to re-run the playbook that gave Democrats control of the House following the 2018 midterms -- after they hammered Republicans for months over votes they took to repeal the Affordable Care Act and to enact the tax cuts for wealthy Americans that Hill Republicans are now looking to extend.
47% : But party leaders will still face plenty of hurdles in getting the legislation to the House floor, with various factions of the conference vying to include provisions to expand the state and local tax deduction while others push to avoid cuts to SNAP or Medicaid.
43% : "The [Energy and Commerce] markup is put-up-or-shut-up time for Republicans who say they won't cut Medicaid.
43% : Trump has said he doesn't want this to be a health care bill, but when you gut Medicaid, you make it a health care bill," said Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), who serves on the panel.
41% : " Still, Democrats see the potential changes to Medicaid as one of their most potent issues to highlight against Republicans, especially after its expansion under the Affordable Care Act put many more Americans on its rolls.
39% : Already party campaign committees and allied groups have sought to soften the ground by accusing Republicans of targeting Medicaid, but the GOP has parried by insisting no such cuts have been offered.
32% : "If House Republicans push ahead with their plan to gut Medicaid and rip health care away from millions of Americans just to fund another tax cut for their billionaire donors like Elon Musk, Democrats will fight them every step of the way -- and we'll make it as painful as possible," said Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.), an Energy and Commerce member. Democrats are eyeing ways to put purple-district members serving on specific committees on the spot.
28% : And while Democrats have talked about threats to Social Security as part of their messaging around the domestic policy package, seizing on agency cuts made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency initiative, the legislation isn't touching that program or Medicare.

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