Wittman Watch

Wittman's mailers are apparently sent from the Upside Down.

🔻 Jobs: 100,000+ jobs lost in 2025.

💥 Security: Wittman supports ICE raids, war in Iran, suspension of due process, and more.

🤒 Health: 44,000 Virginians have lost healthcare due to Wittman/Trump.

He has NO IDEA what we need. #FlipVA01

They've already announced that they'll be cutting Medicaid funds to Minnesota. More likely more of that than any other strategy.

“Freedom” and “liberty” are major themes for Wittman. So why does he *always* vote to RESTRICT civil liberties?

The @aclu.org scorecard has the full story. www.aclu.org/congressiona...

The cancer of Trump’s thought police is spreading, and Wittman does nothing. W&M Law School - the nation’s alma mater, where Jefferson and Madison shaped their minds - is too “woke” to train military lawyers, according to Hegseth and Trump.

What will Wittman do about it? We already know: zero.

Wittman blasts Spanberger for her policy on ICE, an accusation hurtful to the victim, misleading, and wreaking of politics. Spanberger’s order emphasized “collaborative partnerships” not a complete break. He had an ICE detainer in 2020; why didn’t the Trump administration deport him at that time?

We’re still waiting. Do you represent your constituents or not? November is approaching.

So, Rob, what is the actual refund VA01 constituents can expect? Recent IRS data (2/26) estimate an average refund of $300-$351 not $1000 and that includes the 2017 tax cuts. He’s spinning so fast he doesn’t realize he’s lying anymore. We can’t trust anything that he says.

Wittman says he supports Virginia’s energy future. But he voted to repeal clean energy tax credits that brought $4.5B in investment and 21,000+ jobs to Virginia. “Restoring domestic production” is his way of saying: more fossil fuels, fewer clean energy jobs. #VA01 deserves the full story. 4/4

His column praises the SPEED Act as “reasonable reform.” Environmental groups call it the biggest gutting of NEPA since 1970. It slashes lawsuit timelines from 6 years to 150 days & letting polluters skip review. It passed on a party-line vote and hasn’t even cleared the Senate. 3/4

America needs to build again — and Virginia should lead | Guest column America must streamline permitting, boost housing supply, strengthen energy infrastructure and incentivize domestic manufacturing to lower costs, improve competitiveness and rebuild long‑term…

He touts “100% expensing for factories” without mentioning it’s from HR1 ("OBBB") which adds $3.4 TRILLION to the deficit and cuts $911 BILLION from Medicaid. Up to 300,000 Virginians could lose coverage. Rural hospitals may close. That’s the fine print he’s hiding. 2/4

Rob Wittman says “America must build again” in a new @richmond.com column. But in 2021, he voted AGAINST the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and then bragged about the $70M it sent to the Port of Virginia. Voting no and taking the dough isn’t leadership. It’s spin. 🧵

Perfectly put.

Myth of the Week: Are farmers better off with Wittman? He's enabling and voting for the chaos that makes their work difficult or impossible.

Farmers are the lifeblood of rural Virginia. Rob Wittman claims they're central to his votes - but that can only be true if punishing VA's agricultural industries is his goal! In our new Myth of the Week, we ask, "Are farmers better off with Wittman?"

For no reason whatsoever, here's Rob Wittman donor General Dynamics' stock performance over the last year.

HR1 hurts people way more than it helps. Here's the full story, from January...

One commenter nails it: "You quote Lincoln then turn around and abdicate Congress’s roles in our government. Those people died because Trump, without authorization, started an offensive war. "

Exactly.

Over on X, Wittman is "saddened" to sacrifice servicemembers for whatever-the-hell agenda Trump decides he's pursuing in the next 5 seconds. "We owe it to them to remember and honor their sacrifice," he says. But are you, Rob Wittman? ARE YOU REALLY?

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Instead of solving the things that plague #VA01 - healthcare costs, inflation, unnecessary war, tariffs, ICE overreach, and on and on - Wittman is eagerly supporting voter ID laws that will solve NOTHING and create ever more chaos.

An excellent @pilotonline.com letter. Bravo! 👏👏👏

Following the announcement of the DCCC “Red to Blue” program’s support of @shannontaylorva.bsky.social for the #VA01 election, @salaambhattiva.bsky.social, @elizabeth4virginia.bsky.social, Mel Tull, and @lewislittlepage.bsky.social co-signed this letter. What do you all think?

@hcrichardson.bsky.social identifies EXACTLY why Rob Wittman must demand that Congress be recalled to DC and Trump be held to account for this illegal action.

Trump is destroying world peace and the Constitution in the name of patriotism. Wittman must stop him.

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He posted something about it. Pathetic.

Wittman has never and will never represent us properly. He is a useful patsy and #VA01 is paying the price for his fealty to a man and his party, rather than his district and the country. 3/3

Why did the negotiations apparently fail? Perhaps because Trump’s corrupt son-in-law Jared Kushner - who holds NO official position in our gov - was responsible for it alongside the rube Steve Witkoff? Or perhaps they were always just a pretext for this new war. 2/3

Trump has said that the US should not be the world’s policeman. But Wittman says that by sending our troops to Iran, this war will make the world safer. While putting those who fight for our flag into true danger, Wittman and Trump wrap themselves in it like a cloak. 1/3

We warned that Wittman's HR1 vote and refusal to support the ACA would impact Virginians, and now we know 44,000 have lost healthcare - and it might rise to 100,000! Now Virginia's state gov has to step in before more of us suffer because of Wittman's inability to represent us. #FlipVA01.

The real threats to election integrity Wittman conspires to suppress the vote and retain power

We just wrote about the full horrors of these acts, and how absolutely unnecessary and completely destructive they are. Our local rep, Rob Wittman, is all in on them and we’re sick of it.

...and the Navy news is here.

Perhaps over-reliance on one company for key military supplies isn't a great idea? 🤨

And perhaps lawmakers shouldn't take donations from these close-to-monopoly companies?

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Army official ‘not happy’ as Mesquite facility's 155mm production lags - Breaking Defense “I anticipate you will see an investment from the company themselves, from the industry partner themselves, to ensure they can continue to build out that facility that would make rounds that would…

Here's an interesting one. General Dynamics (GD) has donated to Wittman's campaign over multiple cycles. Yesterday Wittman suggested the Army cancel an underperforming GD contract (spoiler: they won't) *and also* pushed Navy to award a new $100B contract to GD. The Army news is here...

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Mr. "I Care About the Environment" gets an F in caring about the environment.

Actually, an F would be a reach goal for Worthless Rob

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'Very inspiring tonight' - Rep. Rob Wittman on honoring veterans at the State of the Union Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) reacts to President Trump's 2026 State of the Union address.

After the State of the Union, (a rapidly blinking) Rob Wittman said, "the state of the union is strong," and that we're "in a good place."

Delusional.