H.R. 8646 passed 213-210 on June 4. It comes in $380 million below last year and, in the Appropriations Committee's own words, reduces salaries and expenses "to account for staffing reductions" — the nearly 4,300 FDA and roughly 900 meat-inspection jobs already gone. 188 members with a page on this site voted yes. Four voted no.
In May 2025, 215 House Republicans voted for a ten-year ban on states and towns enforcing any law that limits AI — data centers included. Four of the fourteen named here voted for it four separate times. Now they are campaigning on letting your town decide.
Pennsylvania's SNAP rolls fell from 1.96 million to 1.74 million in a year, and the state says nearly half of that is Trump's budget bill. All nine of these Republicans voted for it — including the Agriculture chairman who promised 'absolutely no reductions.'
Pennsylvania farmers exported more than $400 million of soybeans and corn, and the trade war put those buyers at risk while fertilizer, fuel and equipment costs climbed. As one Lawrence County farmer put it: "It's putting a tremendous burden and stress on family farms."
As the stock market plunged after Trump's tariff announcement, Perry shrugged it off, saying "There's always going to be concerns... it's going to shake out once everybody understands what the playing field is"
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Scott Perry doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Scott Perry disagrees:
He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
He voted to let ACA tax credits expire, increasing health costs for millions of Americans, driving many of them to switch to cheaper plans or abandon health insurance coverage altogether. And the less people there are with coverage, the higher the rest of our premiums will be.
He wants to repeal the ACA, reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending, and add work requirements to Medicaid.
An estimated 300,000 Pennsylvanians are projected to lose Medicaid coverage under Trump's budget bill.
The cuts he voted for hit his own district: an estimated 22,278 people in PA-10 are projected to lose health coverage — 4,800 losing Affordable Care Act coverage and 17,478 losing Medicaid — according to Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee.
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, Scott Perry and his party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
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.
They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Scott Perry supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
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." Scott Perry 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. Scott Perry wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
Cut Taxes for the Rich, While 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.
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.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Scott Perry supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.
Scott Perry is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Scott Perry has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
Is Intentionally Wrecking Our Public Schools and Our Kids' Futures
Nine out of ten American children — 49.6 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.
Scott Perry 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.
He voted to create the first national private school voucher in American history. It is hidden inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." You give up to $1,700 a year to a charity that hands out private school scholarships, and the government gives you back every penny you gave on your taxes. It costs you nothing — no other tax break in the country works that way. Each person is capped at $1,700, but any number of people can do it, so there is no limit on what it drains from the Treasury. It starts January 1, 2027. Congress's own scorekeepers say $26 billion over ten years; one tax research group says as much as $51 billion every year — more than the government spends on Title I ($18.4 billion) for poor schools and IDEA ($14.6 billion) for kids with disabilities combined. And "low-income" means a family earning three times what a normal family in their area earns still qualifies — in some places, $500,000 a year.
They are giving away our tax dollars to families who are already wealthy and were never in public school to begin with. Every state that has tried it gets the same result — the money goes to people already paying private tuition: 95% of Arkansas voucher users never attended a public school. In Florida's first year of universal vouchers, 69% of new recipients were already in private school and only 13% had ever set foot in a public one. In Iowa, two-thirds were already in private school. We aren't rescuing kids from bad schools — we're cutting checks to families who never needed them, with the money coming out of the schools 90% of our kids actually attend.
And the kids who do switch end up doing worse. Four careful studies found the same thing. In Washington, DC, voucher kids fell behind in math. In Louisiana, a student who started in the middle of the class dropped to the bottom third in math after three years. Indiana and Ohio found the same. Kids with disabilities lost the most.
The money goes to religious schools that can turn our kids away. Ohio now spends nearly $1 billion a year on vouchers, the vast majority going to Catholic and evangelical schools — schools that, unlike public schools, can reject your child over their religion, their disability, or who their parents are, or for ANY REASON AT ALL with almost no accountability for the public money they take. Many have simply raised tuition to capture the vouchers instead of enrolling more students.
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. Scott Perry 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.
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.
Scott Perry 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.
Works for Billionaires, Big Business & Special Interests and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Scott Perry works for the hard-right money machine, not for us. He sits on Foreign Affairs, Oversight, Transportation and the Intelligence Committee. Two ideological groups dominate his funding: the Freedom Caucus Fund has put $286,960 behind him and the Club for Growth another $81,497. AIPAC adds $66,760 this cycle while he sits on the committee that sets Middle East policy. Look at who some of his top funders are:
The Freedom Caucus Fund — $286,960, plus another $70,542 from people connected to it
The Club for Growth — $81,497, plus $42,365 from its people, the anti-tax group funded by billionaires Jeff Yass and Peter Thiel
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC — $128,972 over his career
Steve Scalise's Eye of the Tiger PAC — $35,000
The National Automobile Dealers Association — $35,000
Ryan Zinke's SEAL PAC
The National Association of Realtors
The NRCC — $213,800 from the House Republicans' campaign arm
Scott Perry is funded by billionaires, big business and special interests. No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $1.1 BILLION from Pennsylvania
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Scott Perry didn't just stand by — he was a champion of DOGE's work while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Pennsylvania suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
In Philadelphia alone, roughly $278 million in federal grants and contracts was suspended, cancelled or terminated — including $40 million in city public health grants for immunizations and disease control, and an $8 million cut to the Share Food Program, which said it would reduce the food coming into its warehouse by about 20%.
Perry was "a champion of the work of" DOGE from the start, repeating its claims about foreign-aid fraud — many of them never verified — and kept going after Musk left, offering amendments to cut the Peace Corps and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Even he eventually complained about DOGE's record keeping and its refusal to show lawmakers its work.
We'd like to thank you, Scott Perry, for cheering on DOGE and voting to codify its cuts while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Scott Perry'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.
The gap between what Perry said and what he did was unusually wide. Days after that blocking vote, he released a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding a special prosecutor and the unsealing of grand jury records, calling the Epstein case "one of the most troubling examples of apparent failures within our justice system." He had just voted to keep those records buried.
Perry did vote in an Oversight subcommittee to subpoena the Justice Department for the records. But on the House floor, where his vote could actually have forced the files out, he voted the other way — until the President told him it was safe to stop.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Scott Perry has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
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 Scott Perry thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Scott Perry:
Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career
Has cosponsored the Life at Conception Act five times — in 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, and most recently on February 10, 2026. The bill would write into federal law that a "human being" exists "at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization" — a nationwide abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or IVF embryos.
In an election year, he told voters the opposite. In April 2024 — while he was a cosponsor of that very bill — Perry said he did not support a national abortion ban, telling FOX43: "I think it's the appropriate one. Let's honor the court's decision, and then have the states figure that out." HuffPost's headline was blunt: "GOP Rep. Scott Perry Flip-Flops On Whether He Backs A National Abortion Ban."
His campaign website today says Perry "makes exceptions for circumstances that involve rape, incest, and danger to the life of the mother," and that he "supports the defunding of Planned Parenthood." That exceptions language was not on his site in May 2024, when the same page began: "I'm strongly Pro-Life. All life, born and unborn, is sacred and must be defended." The website added the exceptions. The bill he cosponsored again in February 2026 still contains none.
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 Scott Perry thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
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 Scott Perry'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.
Scott Perry 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.
Perry wants to take one vote away from you entirely. In June 2026 he cosponsored a joint resolution to repeal the 17th Amendment — the 1913 amendment that gave Americans the right to elect their own U.S. senators. If Perry got his way, Pennsylvania's two senators would no longer be chosen by Pennsylvanians at all. They would be picked by politicians in Harrisburg.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Scott Perry and his bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
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 Scott Perry, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
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. What did Scott Perry have to say? Nothing.
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 Scott Perry says nothing:
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's Scott Perry going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
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:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC, have given Scott Perry $128,972.
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Scott Perry supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Scott Perry work for Israel or the people of Pennsylvania? We deserve better.
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. Scott Perry 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.
Perry has not faced his constituents at an in-person town hall since July 30, 2019 — more than 2,000 days. When the Associated Press went looking for him during a 17-day congressional recess in April 2025, on many days no one answered the phone at any of his four offices, and no one opened the locked door at his Mechanicsburg district office. In March 2025, hundreds of his constituents packed a "Perry-less" town hall at an AFSCME union hall outside Harrisburg to vent about Trump and Musk, breaking into a chant of "where's Scott Perry." Weeks later, under mounting pressure, he finally held a town hall — over the phone.
Scott Perry is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
Perry was the key link between Trump and Jeffrey Clark — a Justice Department official Perry tried to install as acting attorney general while Clark was pressing top DOJ officials to send letters urging state legislatures to consider alternate slates of electors. Perry told a nervous Clark, "You are the man. I have confirmed it."
The FBI seized Perry's cellphone in 2022 — he fought in court for years to keep his messages from investigators, and a federal judge ordered him to turn over 2,005 of the 2,219 items on it
Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson called Perry "central to the planning of Jan. 6" — and Perry refused a subpoena to testify before the January 6 Committee, and was referred to the House Ethics Committee for it
Has a Record of Antisemitism and Conspiracy Theories — and Was Accused of Seeking a Presidential Pardon
We should hold our leaders to high standards. Scott Perry has repeatedly failed that test.
In 2024, Perry posted an antisemitic meme to his campaign Facebook page — an image of stereotypically Jewish bankers with hooked noses seated around a Monopoly board perched atop the backs of naked people, shared with the approving comment "Says it all ..." His campaign deleted it after Jewish Insider asked for comment. The Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg and the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition "strongly condemn[ed]" the post
In a closed-door briefing for lawmakers on antisemitism, Perry claimed the KKK is "the military wing of the Democratic Party" and appeared to defend the "Great Replacement Theory" — a white nationalist belief that white people are being deliberately replaced by minorities and immigrants
After January 6, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath that Perry asked for a presidential pardon — a request you make when you know you did something wrong. Perry denies it
Perry's record of bigotry isn't limited to antisemitism — he also has a long history of embracing anti-Muslim figures and rhetoric.
In December 2016, Perry posted a photo with Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT for America — which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls "the largest grass-roots anti-Muslim group in America" — praising her as "someone who demands (and deserves) to be heard about the security of our nation." When criticized, Perry dismissed the SPLC as an "extremist left-wing organization," saying, "One person's hate group is another person's patriot."
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
