Dave McCormick’s Unkept Promise to Lower Senate Costs

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Dave McCormick, during his 2024 Senate campaign, pledged to address issues such as lowering family costs, reducing energy prices, and introducing ethics reforms, but since taking office, he has not introduced any legislation directly targeting these promises. As of April, McCormick has only introduced one bill, focused on combating opioid trafficking, and has cosponsored bills unrelated to his campaign promises, including those affecting abortion access, estate taxes, and gun laws. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania has experienced a 2.5% increase in grocery prices over the past three months, the second-highest increase in the nation.

During his 2024 campaign, Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick promised to promote specific policies in the U.S. Senate. Since assuming office in January, he has yet to fulfill his pledges to decrease family expenses.

The “Dave McCormick’s Day One Promises for Pennsylvania” section on his campaign website outlined “10 key priorities and actions” for his first Senate day. These included legislation aimed at reducing costs for working families and those on fixed incomes, lowering energy prices, implementing Washington ethics reforms and term limits, balancing the federal budget, and providing child care and fertility tax credits.

A Pennsylvania Independent review of the Congress.gov database found McCormick introduced no legislation on his first day or month. By April 1, he filed just one bill, a bipartisan act to counter opioid trafficking.

McCormick’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

McCormick has cosponsored 24 bills, including a joint resolution repealing a cryptocurrency regulation and resolutions celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles, memorializing President Jimmy Carter, and remembering Sen. Alan Simpson.

None of the cosponsored bills target reducing consumer costs, reforming Washington, balancing the budget, or lowering taxes for working families.

The bills McCormick supports would restrict abortion access, eliminate estate taxes on large estates, provide tax credits for private and religious education scholarships, override state gun safety laws, make permanent a business tax deduction, exempt whole milk from school lunch rules, and force banks to lend to gun companies.

According to Datasembly, Pennsylvania grocery prices have increased by 2.5% in the past three months, second only to Oregon.