Swing-district Republican sounds alarm over GOP's affordability agenda: 'Doing nothing is not an option' [View all]

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2025, 7:00 AM ET


Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, one of a handful of House Republicans who won in a district that then-Vice President Kamala Harris carried last fall, has a stark message for his party as the deadline to extend expiring health care subsidies and the midterm elections approach. “If you don’t have a better plan, then get on board with ours,” Fitzpatrick said. “But doing nothing is not an option.”

In a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Manu Raju for “Inside Politics Sunday,” Fitzpatrick leaned into areas where he broke sharply with his party’s leaders, including his desire to find a health care compromise, staunch commitment to defending Ukraine and past votes against advancing major pieces of President Donald Trump’s agenda.

The Pennsylvania lawmaker is among the few House Republicans putting forward legislation to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies due to expire at the end of the year.

Though he doesn’t agree with every part of former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Fitzpatrick made clear that a short-term plan to shield Americans from skyrocketing insurance premiums is better than anything he’s seen from his party. Fitzpatrick voted against the GOP push to repeal Obamacare in 2017 because he found the replacement “insufficient.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/politics/brian-fitzpatrick-republicans-affordability-2026

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He is the Rep. for PA-1, which is just outside of Philly. We need to make ALL of SE PA blue. I.e., remove him and replace with a (D). The main County (Bucks) that his district encompasses, just barely (by 0.07%) tipped to 45. In the past, the district has been swing but tilts blue for Presidential elections.