REPORT: Brian Fitzpatrick “Tries to Dodge Accountability for Slashing Medicaid and SNAP”

Now, a conservative dark money group wants Bucks and Montgomery voters to know the truth: they couldn’t have passed their agenda without Brian Fitzpatrick.

The group is running an ad thanking Fitzpatrick for supporting the Republican law that guts Medicaid to give tax cuts to billionaires, and could jack up health insurance premiums for Pennsylvania families. And Heartland Signal reports that “Fitzpatrick did not respond to a request to comment on why he did not vote down the original version in May, when his vote would have blocked it from advancing to the Senate.”

In case you missed it…

• U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) is attempting to dodge responsibility for originally supporting President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
• Although Fitzpatrick was one of two Republicans in the U.S. House who voted against the final passage of the bill in July, Fitzpatrick approved the original version of the bill in May, when congressional Republicans pushed the legislation through by a slim 215-214 vote.
• This vote garnered Fitzpatrick praise from the Center for Individual Freedom, a conservative dark money group that thanked the lawmaker for supporting Trump’s tax cuts. The tax cuts are set to disproportionately benefit the highest earners in the country, while slashing social safety net programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP. For his vote, the center spent between $6-7k for a Facebook ad thanking Fitzpatrick, according to Facebook’s Ad Library.
• Fitzpatrick did not respond to a request to comment on why he did not vote down the original version in May, when his vote would have blocked it from advancing to the Senate.
• “Brian Fitzpatrick is just another D.C. politician trying to have it both ways,” Cousin said in a press release. “He wants to be applauded by MAGA for giving tax cuts to billionaires, but dodge scrutiny for greenlighting the largest cuts to Medicaid in history. The fact that Fitzpatrick is getting praise from GOP dark money groups for his vote to advance Republicans’ Big, Ugly Bill tells you all you need to know about his true record and who he stands for — and it clearly isn’t Pennsylvanians.”

Bucks County Beacon: Dark Money Conservative Group Running Praise Ads on Social Media Supporting Republican Brian Fitzpatrick
Melinda Rizzo | 8/17/25

• The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on August 15 “a conservative money group, the Center for Individual Freedom is running ads on Meta and Instagram” supporting Republican Brian Fitzpatrick, who represents the First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
• The ads reportedly praise Fitzpatrick for his vote to advance the Trump Administration’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” in May.
• Fitzpatrick did not respond to a request for comment.

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