Rob Bresnahan promised that he wouldn’t vote to cut medicaid. Then he voted to cut medicaid twice. And benefited from dumping medicaid related stock prior to doing so. It’s a little ironically insulting because he actually introduced a bill in Congress to supposedly ban stock trades. I guess he has to make a show of it because he campaigned on the issue.
The New Republic – Malcolm Ferguson/ July 3, 2025 Republican Votes for Budget After Dumping Medicaid-Related Stock Representative Robert Bresnahan has some explaining to do. GOP Representative Robert Bresnahan voted for Trump’s budget on Thursday, conveniently after he dumped his shares of stock in a Medicaid provider. The Pennsylvania representative sold his Centene stock in May, just one week before he voted “yes” on an early House version of the budget bill that crippled the health care system. By Thursday, when he voted for the final version of the bill, Centene stock had plummeted by 43 percent.
And he’s been doing stock trades that have very much to do with his political shenanigans. For example he’s trading tech stocks and all in on bringing the whole AI data center nightmare to northeastern Pennsylvania. He’d been pretty much a jellyfish. This I guess isn’t surprising because there are ads on tv saying he identifies as a “business leader” not as a representative of the residents of northeastern Pennsylvania, after all. The two things are mutually exclusive because trickle down economics is a discredited right-wing economics pseudoscience theory that isn’t real, but politicians of all types just keep trying to push it on us.