{"id":20578,"date":"2026-03-26T16:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/brian-fitzpatrick-delivers-a-warning-on-gop-reconciliation-redo\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:31:39","slug":"brian-fitzpatrick-delivers-a-warning-on-gop-reconciliation-redo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/brian-fitzpatrick-delivers-a-warning-on-gop-reconciliation-redo\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Fitzpatrick delivers a warning on GOP reconciliation redo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As House Republicans start to dream big about another party-line bill, one key member who voted down the last GOP reconciliation bill is warning his colleagues not to count on his support.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) referenced his vote last summer against the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d in an interview Thursday and suggested he was prepared to oppose another GOP-only bill if it, too, includes spending cuts he opposes to social programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw what I did on the first reconciliation bill,\u201d Fitzpatrick said. Fitzpatrick and just one more House Republican could be enough to tank a party-line package given Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s slim majority.<\/p>\n<p>Still, many of Fitzpatrick\u2019s colleagues are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/inside-congress\/2026\/03\/26\/i-just-want-to-go-home-00845889\" target=\"_blank\">making plans<\/a> for an expansive new GOP-only bill that would include more money for Homeland Security operations, Iran war funding and other cost-of-living priorities, while demanding it be fully offset with spending cuts \u2014 possibly from social programs targeted for \u201cfraud prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never say \u2018never\u2019 at anything, but I\u2019m never a fan of single-party bills,\u201d Fitzpatrick said. \u201cThat\u2019s just my approach to government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As House Republicans start to dream big about another party-line bill, one key member who voted down the last GOP reconciliation bill is warning his colleagues not to count on his support. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) referenced his vote last summer against the \u201cbig, beautiful bill\u201d in an interview Thursday and suggested he was prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}