Democrats target Trump in Michigan and Wisconsin with billboard highlighting Project 2025 tax hikes

When former presidentDonald Trump’s bespoke Boeing 757 lands in Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, he will be met in both places with a series of billboards meant to highlight what Democrats are calling a potential $4,000 per family tax hike courtesy of his proposed tax policies.

The ex-president is set to visit both swing states for a pair of rallies as he and his running-mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, are fighting to regain momentum in their campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Trump was previously shown as leading the Democratic ticket in polling taken when he was running against Joe Biden, but in the weeks since the president stood aside in favor of Harris, he has seen his lead evaporate in both the Badger State and the Wolverine State.

And as he campaigns there, Democratic National Committee officials aren’t willing to let him appear without answering for budgeting proposals that the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance — the ex-president’s alma mater — says will blow up the federal deficit and raise tax bills for the average family.

Democrats are hitting back with the roadside displays — which have been erected in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and Waverly, Michigan — to remind voters of the potential cost of returning him to the White House.

The billboards, which will be readable in both English and Spanish, say Trump’s “Project 2025” will “raise taxes on middle-class families by $3,900.”

That figure comes from a Center for American Progress study that found his plans for across-the-board tariffs on all imported goods would result in increased costs that would hit families hard by raising prices for nearly everything they purchase in daily life.

The CAP study