| Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick wants voters to believe he’s not bought and paid for, and that his financial supporters “believe in centrism and pragmatism.” But the receipts tell a different story.
According to new reporting, a “review of his campaign finance reports and voting record, however, reveals that he has taken millions of dollars from GOP megadonors, House Republican leaders, and Wall Street interests and frequently put their interests over those of working Pennsylvanians.”
Fitzpatrick’s MAGA donors include Peter Thiel, Pennsylvania Billionaire Jeff Yass, January 6th attendee Jim Worthington, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, and Koch Industries.
Fitzpatrick has repeatedly voted to give tax breaks as a thank you to his ultra-wealthy donors – all while costs continue to rise for Bucks and Montgomery families.
Read key details from the reporting for yourself:
- Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick repeatedly has touted his large campaign fundraising hauls as proof of his community support and bipartisanship. A Pennsylvania Independent review of his campaign finance reports and voting record, however, reveals that he has taken millions of dollars from GOP megadonors, House Republican leaders, and Wall Street interests and frequently put their interests over those of working Pennsylvanians.
- In February, Fitzpatrick told the news organization NOTUS that his campaign fundraising prowess proved his political independence: “I can tell you, most of my financial supporters are people that believe in centrism and pragmatism and aren’t believers in the two-party cult system, this Hatfield versus McCoy, red versus blue nonsense. They reject that. They just want pragmatism.”
- The numbers tell a different story. According to OpenSecrets, Fitzpatrick’s top source of funding from his first campaign in 2015 to his most recent in 2024 was political action committees and individuals in the securities and investment industry, who donated a total of more than $1.9 million.
- He has received more than $1.5 million from leadership PACs set up by Republican leaders in Congress to help elect other Republicans, and from his colleagues’ campaigns. He accepted at least $66,000 from former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, $63,000 from House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, $34,000 from Majority Whip Tom Emmer, and $25,000 from Speaker Mike Johnson.
- Fitzpatrick’s campaign and his own leadership PAC also reported receiving donations from prominent GOP megadonors and supporters of President Donald Trump. These include at least $66,000 from Newtown Athletic Center owner Jim Worthington; $32,000 from Blackstone cofounder, chair, and CEO Stephen Schwarzman; $13,000 from Warner Bros. Discovery chair emeritus John Malone; $7,000 from PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel; and $2,800 from Susquehanna International Group co-founder and managing director Jeff Yass.
- Petrochemical behemoth Koch Industries, chaired by billionaire megadonor Charles Koch, contributed at least $25,000 to Fitzpatrick in corporate PAC money.
- Neither Fitzpatrick’s campaign nor any of its donors immediately responded to requests for comment for this story.
- Fitzpatrick cast key votes in support of his party’s leadership and in ways that benefited his wealthy donors.
- In 2017, he voted for Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which slashed tax rates for corporations and wealthy individuals while delivering minimal savings or even tax increases for everyone else. Fitzpatrick called it “a historic step to invest in American families and support American businesses and workers” in a press statement at the time.
- In May 2025, Fitzpatrick voted for the House version of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget package that included extensions of expiring Trump tax cuts for rich individuals and cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs. The bill passed 215-214 with one abstention, meaning the bill would not have made it to the Senate without Fitzpatrick’s vote.
- The nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimated that the law will give $117 billion to the wealthiest 1% of Americans in a single year.
- Over the past year, Fitzpatrick has also helped his party block proposals that would have reined in Trump policies driving up costs for American consumers.
- On three separate occasions, he backed temporary rules to block the House from considering proposals to terminate the national emergencies that Trump had declared to justify tariffs on almost all imported goods. The Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump’s tariffs were illegally imposed, but they had already cost the average American household $1,000 in 2025, according to the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.
- Fitzpatrick voted on March 5 and again on April 16 against resolutions that would have directed Trump to remove the U.S. military from unauthorized hostilities with Iran. U.S. attacks on Iran have driven up average gasoline prices in Pennsylvania by about $1 a gallon and caused the highest inflation in two years.
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