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Congressman Rob Bresnahan is facing heat from his own constituents yet again – this time for lying about his vote to make the largest cuts to Medicaid in history.
New reporting from WVIA this morning reveals that during a recent Bresnahan telephone town hall, a constituent teed off on the congressman for lying to voters by breaking his promise not to gut Medicaid. According to WVIA: “The caller said he found Bresnahan’s yes vote ‘offensive, insulting to my intelligence.’”
Read highlights from the latest reporting below:
WVIA: Rep. Rob Bresnahan promised to preserve Medicaid, but he and critics differ on the promise
By Borys Krawczeniuk | June 25, 2025
- U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan’s vote for a federal spending bill expected to end the Medicaid benefits of millions has drawn criticism centered mostly on whether he broke a promise.
- Protesting citizens and many groups aligned with Democrats say the first-term Republican congressman promised he would not vote to cut the federal health insurance program meant mainly for low-income people, but did it anyway.
- During Bresnahan’s June 10 telephone town hall, a caller… expressed dissatisfaction with his spending bill vote. The House passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by a 215-214 vote on May 22 with all but one Republican voting yes.
- The caller said he found Bresnahan’s yes vote “offensive, insulting to my intelligence.”
- “Is it really beneficial for us, or is it a … cut on Medicaid, which you promised you wouldn’t do?” the caller asked.
- “If a bill is put in front of me that guts the benefits my neighbors rely on, I will not vote for it,” he said in a Feb. 13 news release. “These benefits are promises that were made to the people of NEPA, and where I come from, people keep their word.”
- The news release said more than 200,000 Medicaid recipients live in the 8th Congressional District, more than a quarter of its population.
- On May 22, Bresnahan and all of Pennsylvania’s Republican House members voted for President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
- The act will undoubtedly cut spending on Medicaid.
- A week before the act passed, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan think tank with liberal leanings, estimated a minimum 358,000 Pennsylvania Medicaid recipients would lose coverage because of the work requirements alone.
- That includes 28,000 in the 8th district, according to the center.
- Many Democrats ripped the act, including Gov. Josh Shapiro, who called it “a bad bill.” Shapiro said more than 300,000 Pennsylvanians could lose Medicaid coverage and 25 struggling rural hospitals that rely on Medicaid could face further strain.
- That means, he said, “that after a decade of our hard work to reduce the number of uninsured Pennsylvanians by nearly 50%, we will go backwards and 10% of our Medicaid population will lose coverage and become uninsured.”
- “This will raise health care costs for all Pennsylvanians – including those with private insurance,” Shapiro said. “Any lawmaker in D.C. who thinks the Commonwealth can backfill this massive hole they’ve created is wrong.”
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