| Congressman Rob Bresnahan has a troubled relationship with the truth.
Bresnahan lied when he promised he would ban stock trading in Congress, and he lied when he promised he wouldn’t vote to gut Medicaid.
Now Bresnahan is getting fact-checked again, this time for falsely claiming that he didn’t cut Medicaid despite the fact that he voted to gut it by roughly $1 trillion and kick thousands of his neighbors off their health care.
Read for yourself:
The Keystone: Rep. Rob Bresnahan claims Medicaid will grow by $200 billion after voting for cuts
By Sean Kitchen | 9/16/25
- As US Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Lackawanna) makes claims about President Donald Trump’s $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, questions about his math arise.
- “Speaking of also what’s gonna grow: Medicaid, by $200 billion over the next 10 years,” Bresnahan said on the Volpe Report alongside US House Speaker Mike Johnson.
- “I really take offense to someone saying that we are cutting the Medicaid programs, because this is actually going to continue to grow into the tune of $200 billion.”
- “[Bresnahan’s statement] is an extremely misleading statement,” Laura Beltran, Director of Policy and Research at the Pennsylvania Policy Center, told The Keystone.
- “ We know from the Congressional Budget Office, we are expecting around $900 billion to $990 billion in cuts, and that $200 billion claim is basically that.”
- The Pennsylvania Department of Humans Services estimates that 310,000 residents will lose their health care coverage because of these cuts with over 21,000 of Bresnahan’s constituents being impacted by the cuts.
- Bresnahan’s office did not respond to a request for comment at the time of this writing.
- Rothenbecker went on to explain how Bresnahan’s statements are out of touch with those living in his district.
- She added, “ Rob Bresnahan clearly is doing quite well for himself and he’s earned a lot of money since taking office through insider stock trades, especially one that we saw where he sold some stocks related to Medicaid right before that decision was made. We’ve also seen that he has a helicopter he’s keeping secret.”
- “I just don’t think that he is living the same lifestyle, or the same life that a lot of people in Luzerne County and Lackawanna County are living as their reality,” Rothenbecker said. “People are seeing a lot less money in their paychecks, but they’re also not seeing their money going as far.”
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