Rob Wittman needs to go.  

 

Wittman was elected to Congress from Virginia’s First District in a 2007 special election following the death of the incumbent.  He has been re-elected ever since — as of mid-2026 he has been in Congress for 19 years.  In those 19 years, he has introduced no significant legislation.  He is essentially a minor back-bencher who slavishly follows the Republican Party line.

Wittman is a Trump supporter.  In 2020, after Trump lost the election and disputed the result, Wittman joined 145 other Republicans in supporting a suit against five states, claiming voting irregularities in those states led to a Biden win and a Trump loss.  No such thing happened, yet Wittman jumped onto the Trump bandwagon.

Later, he voted for a Republican resolution challenging the results of the 2020 election.

He supported Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” which took medical insurance coverage away from around 30,000 people in his district.  The bill’s attack on Medicare and the Affordable Care Act also threatens the survival of at least one rural hospital in his district — Rappahannock General Hospital, Kilmarnock.

Wittman simply needs to get out of Congress and make way for someone who will truly represent the people of the First District.

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