Rep. Bresnahan Has Voted to Cut Medicaid and SNAP, Let Critical Health Care Tax Credits Expire, and Backed Cost-Raising Tariffs

January 20, 2026

Scranton, PENNSYLVANIA - Congressman Rob Bresnahan’s first year in office can be summarized in two words: higher costs. In the last year, he has voted to raise the cost of the health care, utilities, and groceries that Pennsylvania families rely on – all to give bigger tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations.

Last summer, Congressman Bresnahan voted for the Republican Tax, which included the largest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP in history. Over 200,000 of Congressman Bresnahan’s constituents rely on Medicaid, while over 145,000 rely on SNAP. These cuts could result in the loss of tens of thousands of jobs across our Commonwealth, threaten the fate of food assistance in the Commonwealth, and put hospitals and nursing homes at risk of closure, leaving Pennsylvanians hours away from or without access to critical care.

Further risking Pennsylvanians’ access to health care, Congressman Bresnahan voted twice last year for funding packages that did not include an extension of these expiring health care tax credits, ultimately letting them expire at the end of 2025. Without these tax credits, health care costs have skyrocketed for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians across the Commonwealth, with Bresnahan's constituents facing 84% average cost increase in monthly premiums.

Congressman Bresnahan has voted four times to support cost-raising tariffs, which economists estimate will cost families an additional $2,300 per year. These tariffs have skyrocketed grocery prices and impacted goods like furniture and pharmaceutical drugs.

Affordable Pennsylvania calls on Congressman Bresnahan to prioritize Pennsylvanians over billionaires in 2026.