| Vulnerable Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick campaigned on a promise to lower costs for hardworking Pennsylvanians, but has done nothing but make their lives more expensive. Now Bucks and Montgomery County voters are souring on his broken promises.
In a new column, the editor of the Bucks County Beacon blasted Fitzpatrick for unleashing an affordability crisis on Pennsylvania and wrote that “the only way to change course is for voters to flip Congress – and locally that starts with Fitzpatrick’s seat.”
Under Fitzpatrick’s watch, Pennsylvanians are facing rising grocery prices, skyrocketing electric bills, and soaring health care premiums. Fitzpatrick voted to jack up costs even more for Pennsylvania families by voting to protect Trump’s cost-spiking tariffs three separate times.
Read more about Fitzpatrick’s broken promises:
Bucks County Beacon: Thanks to Trump and His Republican Enablers in Congress, the Affordability Crisis in Pennsylvania Worsens
- “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One,” Donald Trump said on the campaign trail. Americans, 408 days later, are still waiting. What’s worse, instead things are increasingly more expensive.
- Promise made, promise broken.
- Over 13 months into his presidency, and empowered by a Republican Congress to rubber stamp his reckless economic policies, working families in Pennsylvania are left to helplessly watch life become more and more unaffordable as gas, health care, housing and grocery prices also continue to spike.
- Across the board, life is more unaffordable for Pennsylvanians.
- Because Trump and his Republican Congress let Affordable Care Act subsidies expire, Pennsylvanians who enroll in health insurance through the state’s official marketplace Pennie faced “an average price increase of 102% to remain in their plan for 2026.” Never mind the “nearly 1 in 5 enrollees were unable to keep their health plan for 2026.”
- [Trump’s tariffs] will raise costs on the median Pennsylvania family by $1,183. More so, as PennLive reported, the Trump tariffs that the Supreme Court just overturned “cost Pennsylvanians $4 billion.”
- And PA-01 Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick thought it wise to vote to shield Trump’s future tariffs from Congressional oversight earlier this month. Luckily that measure failed because three Republicans dared to put their constituents economic well-being ahead of fealty Trump – unlike Fitzpatrick.
- Grocery bills are also more, not less expensive since Trump took office.
- Trump can not survive and continue his disastrous economic policies without Fitzpatrick being re-elected…the only way to change course is for voters to flip Congress – and locally that starts with Fitzpatrick’s seat.
- Ending the affordability crisis in Pennsylvania can’t happen without ending Fitzpatrick’s career in Congress. Donald Trump knows this. Speaker Johnson knows this. Even Fitzpatrick knows this.
- We’ll have to wait until November to see if the voters do as well.
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