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Demand Representative

Brian Fitzpatrick

Stand Against

Project 2025’s Extreme Policies

Project 2025 is an unprecedented and dangerous takeover by MAGA Republicans and wealthy billionaire donors that rolls back Americans’ rights and freedoms, threatens our democracy, and hurts the middle class. Many of Project 2025's policies have already been embraced by Representative Fitzpatrick.

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Project 2025

Rep. Fitzpatrick's Record

Raising the cost of prescription medication

Project 2025 proposes the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act, which caps monthly out-of-pocket insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries at $35 per month, and specifically prohibits Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices. (Page 465)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted against the Inflation Reduction Act. 

Banning abortion nationwide 

Project 2025 declares that life begins at “the moment of conception,” which puts abortion at risk. (Page 450, Page 562)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022, which would have codified Roe V.  Wade into law and protected Americans’ right to access abortion. 


Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for legislation to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy. 

Putting corporate interests over consumers

Project 2025 would abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Page 839)

Rep. Fitzpatrick called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “an unchecked monarchy, a dictatorship issuing rules and regulations.” 

Weakening labor unions and worker protections

Project 2025 would gut the National Labor Relations Board, which would help anti-union employers undermine unionization efforts and make it easier for businesses to illegally fire workers. (Page 591)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted to roll back National Labor Relations Board protections for workers with joint employers. According to a letter to Congress signed by the SEIU, CWA, and other labor groups, Fitzpatrick voted to overturn a rule that helps safeguard “the labor rights of millions of workers in subcontracted employment, ensuring that corporations cannot skirt the law simply by outsourcing responsibility for their workers.”

Allowing the wealthy and corporations to more easily cheat on their taxes

Project 2025 would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided funding for the IRS to take action against wealthy and corporate tax cheats. The IRS has already collected $1 billion of unpaid taxes from the wealthy due to this funding. (Page 365; Page 699)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.

 

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted several times this Congress to rescind funding for the IRS to go after wealthy and corporate tax cheats to make them pay what they owe. 

Making it harder for low-income households to afford nutritious food

Project 2025 would establish stringent work requirements for SNAP beneficiaries – the largest federal nutrition program, which serves 41.1 million individuals. (Page 299)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the Default on America Act, which would expand harsh work requirements for SNAP benefits. 

Allowing oil and gas drilling on public lands

Project 2025 would push the Department of the Interior to allow oil and natural gas lease sales “to the maximum extent permitted,” which would allow fossil fuel companies to drill on more public lands and waters, undoing progress made by the current administration to decrease this harmful practice. (Page 523)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act, which would limit presidential authority to utilize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve unless the government allows oil and gas companies to drill more on federal lands and waterways.

 

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the Default on America Act, which would require the Bureau of Land Management to hold quarterly auctions for oil and gas leases. 

Cutting Medicaid benefits

Project 2025 says CMS should “add work requirements” to Medicaid and tell states they “have the ability to adopt work incentives for able-bodied individuals” for Medicaid. (Page 468)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the Default on America Act, which included harsh new work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries.

Giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations

Project 2025 proposes implementing just two income tax brackets, which would raise taxes on Americans in the current lower brackets and lower taxes on Americans in the upper brackets. Project 2025 would repeal the corporate minimum tax and lower the corporate tax rate from 21% to 18% – resulting in a $500 billion tax cut for corporations and the lowest corporate tax rate in 80 years. (Page 696)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which gave massive tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations and “helped billionaires pay a lower rate than the working class for the first time in history.”

Rep. Fitzpatrick supports legislation to make the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. He co-sponsored the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, which would extend tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and would give tax breaks to big corporations.

Raising home energy costs

Project 2025 would eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances, raising costs for consumers, businesses, and renters, and hurt American manufacturing. (Page 378)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for H.R. 7700, the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act and for H.R. 7637, the Refrigerator Freedom Act, which repealed energy efficiency rules for dishwashers and refrigerators. He also voted for H.R. 6192, the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act, which would make it more difficult for the Department of Energy to impose energy efficiency standards on home appliances and easier to revoke current ones.

Discriminating against LGBTQ+ people

Project 2025 calls on the DOJ to defend people who discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. (Page 560)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for nine FY24 appropriations bills which contained extreme policy riders, which would create a “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ people.

 

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for six FY25 appropriations bills which contain extreme policy riders, which would create a “license to discriminate” against LGBTQ+ people.

Discriminating against LGBTQ+ students

Project 2025 endorses the “Parents Bill of Rights Act” and would forbid schools and teachers from using a student’s chosen name or pronouns without permission from that student’s parents. Project 2025 would even provide a license to school employees to refuse to use a student’s correct pronouns even with their parents’ support. (Page 345346)

Project 2025 also criticizes the Biden administration for allowing transgender children to participate in sports that match their gender identity. (Page 333

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the H.R. 5, the “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” which would require schools to contact parents about any accommodations for transgender students, including using their preferred names and pronouns. It also requires schools to notify parents if their policy allows transgender students to participate in sports or use bathrooms that do not correspond with the gender on their birth certificate. 

Cutting education for low-income students

Project 2025 would phase out Title I, Part A education grants, which provide funding for lower income school districts within ten years. (Page 350) Phasing out Title I grants would risk 180,000 teacher positions, nearly 6% of the national teacher workforce, and negatively impact 2.8 million students.

 

Project 2025 would also eventually eliminate the Department of Education. (Page 319)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the FY24 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, which would have cut $14.7 billion from Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies, nearly 80% of the program’s 2023 funding. On the whole, the appropriations bill would have cut the Department of Education’s budget by 28% below FY23 levels.

Rolling back Inflation Reduction Act clean energy investments

Project 2025 would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and rescind funds for renewable energy development. (Page 365)

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted against the Inflation Reduction Act.

 

Rep. Fitzpatrick voted for the Default on America Act, which would have cut billions of dollars from nearly every climate, environmental justice, and clean energy tax incentive included in the Inflation Reduction Act.

 

Rep. Fitzpatrick supported the Build It in America Act, which would repeal clean energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act. 

 

Since 2023, House Republicans have voted 51 times to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, either in whole or in part, including through the Lower Energy Costs Act and the Default on America Act. 

Blocking efforts to support diversity, equity, and inclusion

Project 2025 would reverse diversity, equity, and inclusion advancements across the federal government. (Page 4-5)

Rep. Fitzpatrick approved seven FY24 appropriations bills, which contained extreme policy riders that would block President Biden’s executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion or prohibit the use of funds for Critical Race Theory. 

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