The Hill: Virginia Democrats Criticize Earle-Sears Over DOGE Cuts in New Ad
April 16, 2025
Sears: “It happens all the time… And the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing, and I don’t understand why”
VIRGINIA – On April 15th, Virginia Democrats released a new ad highlighting Winsome Earle-Sears - in her own words - downplaying the attacks on Virginia jobs as the unemployment rate in Virginia increases. In the audio first reported by Meidas Touch, Winsome Earle-Sears says “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.”
What Virginians Are Reading:
The Hill: Virginia Democrats criticize Earle-Sears over DOGE cuts in new ad
- The ad, first reported by The Hill, is the state party’s first digital ad of the cycle.
- The spot features coverage of recently released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing unemployment claims in Northern Virginia growing 7.1 percent in February.
- The ad underscores the effort from Democrats to make DOGE’s impact on Virginia’s federal workforce a key issue in November’s gubernatorial race.
- Census data shows there are roughly 320,000 full-time federal employees living in Virginia along with swaths of government contractors. The state is also home to a significant military population.
Virginia Scope: Democrats release new ad attacking Sears over DOGE
- The Democratic Party of Virginia released a new ad on Tuesday attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Sears over President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce.
- This is the first digital ad released by DPVA for the gubernatorial election.
