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Governor Shapiro Slams Rob Bresnahan for Abandoning Northeastern Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro just put vulnerable Republican Congressman Rob Bresnahan on blast for abandoning NEPA families. 

Gov. Shapiro directly called out Bresnahan during a visit to Pittston yesterday for his “shameful” vote to rip away health care and food assistance from his own constituents and put rural hospitals at risk of closure:

“Your congressman from this district voted to cut 510,000 Pennsylvanians off of their health care, and at the same time voted to cut about 140,000… Pennsylvanians off of SNAP. And the third thing they did was gut payments from Medicaid to rural hospitals… That’s what your Congressman voted for, and he was the deciding vote on that measure… I think it’s shameful.”

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When asked if, in all his years in elective office, he ever expected issues like feeding people in need and providing affordable health care to become so politicized, Gov. Josh Shapiro had the answer.“Well, understand that your congressman, from this district, voted to cut 510,000 Pennsylvanians off of their health care, and at the same time voted to cut about 140,000 of those 2 million Pennsylvanians off of SNAP,” Shapiro said during a news conference at the Monsignor Andrew J. McGowan Weinberg Food Bank in the CenterPoint Commerce & Trade Park in Pittston Township on Thursday.

Shapiro was referring to freshman U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-Dallas Township, who has voted with the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives on the issues Shapiro referred to.

Shapiro took aim at Republicans in Congress, specifically alluding to U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, R-8, Dallas Twp., for his vote in favor of the One Big Beautiful Bill and effects it will have on Medicaid and SNAP beneficiaries.

“It’s cold-hearted, and by the way, it’s not the Pennsylvania way,” Shapiro said of the SNAP pause.More than 2 million Pennsylvanians receive SNAP benefits. As of September 2025, more than 140,000 SNAP recipients lived in U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan’s congressional district and nearly 115,000 in U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser’s, according to the state’s Department of Human Services. Bresnahan’s district has the most SNAP recipients of any Republican-led congressional district in the state.

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