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Paul A. Gosar

U.S. Representative, AZ-09 · Republican · current term began Jan. 3, 2025

When Gosar first took office in 2011, the federal debt stood at $13.56 trillion (end of fiscal 2010; Treasury). As of 2026-08-06 it is $39.89 trillion (Treasury, daily). That rise spans presidents, majorities and economies — it belongs to no single member, which is why it is context here and part of no grade. What is Gosar’s own: their recorded votes when the major fiscal bills came through, beside what the Congressional Budget Office estimated each law would do to deficits.

• S. 3373 — voted Yea. CBO put its deficit increase at $797 billion over 2022–2032 (mandatory outlays, per CBO's compilation of laws enacted in the second session of the 117th Congress; the law deliberately reclassified toxic-exposure care from discretionary to mandatory spending.) Source: CBO, Legislation Enacted in the Second Session of the 117th Congress · CBO, Estimated Budgetary Effects of H.R. 3967 (PACT Act)
• H.R. 1319 — voted Nay. CBO put its deficit increase at about $1.8 trillion over 2021–2031 (mandatory spending and revenue effects, per CBO's compilation of laws enacted in the first session of the 117th Congress.) Source: CBO, Legislation Enacted in the First Session of the 117th Congress · CBO, Estimated Budgetary Effects of H.R. 1319
• H.R. 3684 — voted Nay. CBO's full estimate: about $256 billion added to deficits over 2021–2031 (the whole law, discretionary spending included. On the narrower mandatory-and-revenues basis CBO's enacted-law compilation shows the opposite sign — a $159 billion deficit decrease — which is why the basis is stated here: both numbers are CBO, and quoting either alone would mislead.) Source: CBO, Senate Amendment 2137 to H.R. 3684 (cost estimate) · CBO, Legislation Enacted in the First Session of the 117th Congress
• H.R. 4346 — voted Nay. CBO put its deficit increase at $79 billion over 2022–2032 (mandatory and revenue effects only — the law's semiconductor appropriations are additional discretionary money on top of this figure.) Source: CBO, Legislation Enacted in the Second Session of the 117th Congress · CBO, cost estimate for H.R. 4346 as amended
• H.R. 5376 — voted Nay. CBO estimated a $58 billion deficit decrease over 2022–2032 (net effect of the enacted law, per CBO's compilation — new corporate taxes and drug-price provisions against the energy and IRS spending.) Source: CBO, Legislation Enacted in the Second Session of the 117th Congress · CBO, cost estimate for Public Law 117-169
• H.R. 3746 — voted Nay. CBO estimated a $1.5 trillion deficit reduction over 2023–2033 (mostly from the statutory caps on discretionary funding — projected savings that depend on future Congresses living within the caps.) Source: CBO's Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of H.R. 3746 · CBO, How the Fiscal Responsibility Act Affects Projections of Federal Debt

Debt figures as of the data refresh on 2026-08-08. These same votes feed the grade’s fiscal-conduct block (10%, methodology v2.5) — the debt itself feeds nothing: it belongs to no single member, and only their own votes are scored. The change is preregistered and dated in the changelog.

The evidence base for the promise-keeping block of the grade — the 25% shown as reserved on the card above. What Gosar said they would do, in their own words, beside what they did. Said-columns hold verbatim quotes only, from dated, linkable sources, and publish only after two agreeing human reviews — the methodology’s bar, and the reason a column may be empty: the bar does not move to fill it.

These pies aggregate the largest verified spending items — appropriations and mandatory outlays — in the bills Gosar cast a recorded vote on, sliced by category, every dollar quoted from the bill text. Authorizations, guarantee ceilings and pay-fors are excluded, exactly as on the bill pages. This shows what the bills contained, by Gosar’s own votes — not a claim that Gosar wrote the spending or that it did or didn’t work. Every dollar in these pies is quoted from the bill text and cited, item by item, on the bill’s own page.

Recorded as present or not voting on: H.R. 4366 (Not Voting). These count toward neither pie.

• Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund — aid to States, DC, territories, Tribes$219,800,000,000
  H.R. 1319 — voted Nay
• Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund — aid to metropolitan cities, counties, and smaller local governments$130,200,000,000
  H.R. 1319 — voted Nay
• Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (K-12 ESSER III) — Department of Education$122,774,800,000
  H.R. 1319 — voted Nay
• Mandatory general-fund transfer to the Highway Account of the Highway Trust Fund (backfills highway contract authority; not a program outlay) — Highway Trust Fund — Highway Account$90,000,000,000
  H.R. 3684 — voted Nay
• FEMA Disaster Relief Fund (incl. COVID-19 funeral assistance) — Federal Emergency Management Agency$50,000,000,000
  H.R. 1319 — voted Nay

The remaining 130 items are quoted in full on the bill pages.

Closed fiscal years published for this term so far: FY2025 only. FY2026 closes Sept. 30, 2026 and OMB has not published it. A short chart here means the term is young and the series stops at the last closed year — not that spending stopped.