Major new reporting is exposing how Congressman Scott Perry has been a massive hypocrite when it comes to our ballooning national debt and deficit.
Perry has shed crocodile tears for years about spending in Washington, but voted to explode our deficit by $4 TRILLION. Now, Perry is “facing blowback” and “finds himself playing defense” as he fails to explain his hypocrisy and harmful voting record.
Read the new reporting for yourself:
- Republican Rep. Scott Perry, a past chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, has spent his 12-year career in Congress railing about the ballooning national debt and deficits — what he’s bemoaned as the “bankrupting of America.”
- But after voting for President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which is estimated to hike deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, Perry finds himself playing defense on the issue of the skyrocketing national debt.
- “He pretends he’s a fiscal conservative, but this is $4 trillion of new debt,” said his likely Democratic challenger, Janelle Stelson, a former local news anchor who is seeking a rematch against Perry in 2026. “I mean, the next generation is really going to struggle with this. We’re mortgaging our children’s future with that $4 trillion.”
- Perry’s a “fraud,” Stelson added. “This is a really rotten vote that’s really going to hurt people.”
- The race in Pennsylvania’s 10th District, based in the state capital of Harrisburg, will be one of the most closely watched this cycle as Democrats try to win back control of the lower chamber — and secure a check on Trump.
- An Iraq War veteran and former state lawmaker, Perry arrived in Washington in 2013. Like many in his party at the time, he warned about rising deficits and debt in the wake of Democrats’ passage of the Affordable Care Act. He later served for one term as chairman of the Freedom Caucus, created to pull the GOP conference further to the right, especially on spending matters.
- “It’s complete hypocrisy,” said fellow Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle, the top Democrat on the Budget Committee. “Besides this bill being the greatest loss of health care in American history, it’s also the single greatest increase to our national debt in American history.”
- “The CBO is headed by a Republican appointee and staffed by 270 hardworking, nonpartisan government officials who simply call the balls and strikes as they see them,” Boyle said.
- “It’s not just CBO that’s showing the so-called big beautiful bill will add a massive amount to the national debt — it is left-of-center groups, it is right-of-center groups and it is nonpartisan groups,” he said. “Their piece of legislation pretty much united every group across the ideological spectrum that this is really a debt bomb.”
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