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Brian Fitzpatrick

9 years as Representative - District 1 in Pennsylvania

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Made Everything More Expensive

Food, rent, electricity, healthcare - in America we should be able to afford these basic necessities of life without going bankrupt.

Brian Fitzpatrick has supported the current administration's tariffs and other policies which have led to:

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We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Brian Fitzpatrick doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.

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Made Healthcare Unaffordable and Harder to Get

We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.

Brian Fitzpatrick disagrees:

Fitzpatrick was one of only two Republicans to vote against the final "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that guts Medicaid. Don't give him too much credit — he voted for all of it when it counted, and against it only when it didn't.

On May 22, 2025, he voted FOR the House version, which passed 215–214 — the bare minimum. And that version was not a milder bill the Senate later ruined. It already cut $863.4 billion from Medicaid and CHIP and left 10.9 million more people uninsured. He voted for the whole thing at the one moment his vote was needed to pass it.

His no vote came six weeks later, after the outcome was settled. At 3:23 AM on July 3, the House adopted the rule to bring the bill to the floor, 219–213 — with Fitzpatrick the only Republican voting no, and 219 Republican yes votes now on the record. Eleven hours later the bill passed 218–214, with him and Thomas Massie voting no. He had a genuinely decisive vote once, and he used it to pass the bill.

We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Brian Fitzpatrick doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.

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Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security

Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.

For years, Brian Fitzpatrick and his party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.

Fitzpatrick voted against the final "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" and its roughly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts — but only after voting FOR the House version at the one moment his vote was needed to pass it, 215–214. Whatever he says about protecting these programs, he has never once withheld a vote that would have stopped the cuts. And he has done nothing to stop what comes next — he voted to hand the Speaker's gavel to Mike Johnson, who is now openly promising a plan to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security "next year."
  • They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
  • We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
  • Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
  • It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Brian Fitzpatrick and his party are now preparing to do exactly that.

These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Brian Fitzpatrick wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.

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Cut Taxes for the Rich, While Making the Rest of Us Pay For It

We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.

But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
  • The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
  • The 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018 — a "true" tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income.
  • 23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.

Brian Fitzpatrick is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better. Fitzpatrick voted for the House version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — the one carrying those tax cuts for the top 1 percent — when it passed by a single vote. He voted against the final version months later, once 218 of his Republican colleagues had already supplied the votes to pass it without him. He has introduced no legislation to make billionaires pay their fair share. And in 2017, Fitzpatrick voted for the Trump tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy.
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Wants Us Poor and Hungry

I think we can all agree that nobody in America, the richest country in the world, should go hungry.

Brian Fitzpatrick disagrees.

Fitzpatrick voted FOR the House version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — the version that cut nearly $300 billion from SNAP through 2034, roughly 30 percent of the program and by far the largest cut in its history. It passed 215–214. He voted no on the final version months later, after the votes to pass it were already locked in. On the one vote that could have stopped the deepest food-assistance cut in American history, he voted yes.

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Brian Fitzpatrick doesn't care if we go hungry. We deserve better.
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Is Intentionally Wrecking Our Public Schools and Our Kids' Futures

Nine out of ten American children49.6 million of them — go to a public school. It's where they learn to read, where they eat breakfast and lunch, where kids with disabilities are guaranteed an education by law, and where a kid from any family, rich or poor, religious or not, gets a fair shot.

Brian Fitzpatrick and his party are taking that apart on purpose: draining public school money into private and religious schools, pushing one religion into everybody else's classrooms, and shutting down the federal department that is supposed to look out for our kids.

Fitzpatrick voted to create the first national private school voucher in American history. It was tucked inside the House version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" — the version he voted for on May 22, 2025, when it passed by a single vote. That bill set up a $5 billion-a-year program reaching all 50 states, handing taxpayers a dollar-for-dollar credit — worth up to 10% of their income — for donating to private school scholarship groups, with every state guaranteed at least $20 million. The Senate later stripped out the $5 billion ceiling altogether, and that uncapped version is the one now on the books. Fitzpatrick voted for the program at the one moment his vote decided whether it existed at all.

Our public schools took generations to build, and they are the one institution that has to take every single child who walks in the door. Brian Fitzpatrick is helping tear them down and hand the pieces to private interests. Our kids will pay for it for the rest of their lives. We deserve better.

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Destroyed Our Jobs

A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.

Brian Fitzpatrick supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
  • There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
  • 55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
  • The unemployment rate is 4.2%
  • In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
  • Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
  • 58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.

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We can't live the American Dream without well-paying jobs. Brian Fitzpatrick doesn't care. We deserve better.
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Works for Billionaires, Big Business & Special Interests and Not for Us

Our elected officials should work for us, the people.

Brian Fitzpatrick works for big money, not for us. He sits on the Ways and Means Committee, which writes the tax code for every industry in the country, and on the Intelligence Committee. AIPAC has put $250,484 into his campaign this cycle. Of the $22.7 million behind him, only 2% came from small grassroots donors, and he ranks #363 out of 440 House members in grassroots funding — he is funded by big money, not by us. Look at who some of his top funders are:

Brian Fitzpatrick is funded by billionaires, big business and special interests. No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
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Does Whatever Donald Trump Tells Him to Do

As a member of Congress, part of Brian Fitzpatrick's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from Pennsylvania have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
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Protected Pedophiles by Blocking Release of the Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein ran a global sex trafficking network that sexually abused dozens of girls and women for decades. The FBI identified at least 35 minors with similar abuse histories. When finally released in 2026, the files — over 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images — revealed what UN human rights experts called "disturbing and credible evidence" of a possible global criminal enterprise. Those experts said some of the conduct may meet the threshold for crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, torture, and enforced disappearance.

For months, House Republican leadership blocked every vote to release these files — and Brian Fitzpatrick went along.
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Wants the Government to Control Women's Bodies

America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.

Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Brian Fitzpatrick thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.

Brian Fitzpatrick:
  • Opposed Roe v. Wade
  • Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
  • Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career

Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Brian Fitzpatrick thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
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Is Trying to Take Away Our Voting Power

In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.

Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Brian Fitzpatrick's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.

Brian Fitzpatrick has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.

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YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Brian Fitzpatrick and his bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
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Supported America's Secret Police Force, ICE

Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.

But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Brian Fitzpatrick knows exactly what should be done about it — he wrote the reforms himself, and then voted to fund ICE for three more years without a single one of them.
  • ProPublica: They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
  • ProPublica: Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
  • New York Times: Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
  • They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. Three months later Fitzpatrick introduced a bill requiring independent investigations of officer-involved shootings like this one — then voted to fund ICE for three more years without it.
  • They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
  • And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Fitzpatrick votes to fund them:
    • On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
    • On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
    • On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.

If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What did Fitzpatrick do about it? He cast the deciding vote to write ICE a $70 billion check with no conditions attached. We deserve better.
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Voted for the Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran

War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.

In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:

The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Brian Fitzpatrick supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Brian Fitzpatrick work for Israel or the people of Pennsylvania? We deserve better.
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When he finally did break ranks in June, Fitzpatrick told reporters "we have to follow the law," explaining: "We're past the 60 days, so you have two choices. You either follow the law or you change the law. You can't violate the law. That's not an option." That took courage. But AIPAC — which gave him almost a quarter of a million dollars — is surely not happy about it.
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Avoids His Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls

Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Brian Fitzpatrick doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only wants to talk to his rich donors or people who agree with him.

Fitzpatrick only holds telephone town halls with pre-screened questions — not the kind where real constituents can confront him. A search of his own website's press releases found only one announcement for an open, in-person town hall — in August 2017. In March 2025, hundreds of Bucks County residents showed up to a constituent-organized town hall — with an empty chair reserved for their congressman. That same month, Fitzpatrick went on national TV to defend avoiding town halls, calling them "a three-ring circus" and claiming — without evidence — that protesters are "funded by these dark money groups."

Brian Fitzpatrick is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
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  • Incarceration: #23
  • Overall Health: #26
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  • Food Insecurity: #20
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