July 20, 2026Methodology v2.2 · Data: BLS, 2010–2025
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Michael T. McCaul

U.S. Representative, TX-10 · Republican · in office since Jan. 3, 2025

Michael T. McCaul
U.S. Representative · Texas-10 · Republican · since Jan. 2025
Overall grade · among representatives
No. 21 of 358
+0.55σ · 35% of the grade measured
How this grade is built
35%Bills they move (LES)+0.55
30%Texas: how it moved on their watchreserved
25%Alignment (promises vs. votes)reserved
10%Attendancereserved
Their own recordValue
Legislative effectiveness LES · chamber avg = 1.0
3.36
Missed votes2.8%
Ideology 0 = left · 1 = right (GovTrack)0.63
Promises keptIn human review
Texas context — not this member’s grade

House members represent a district, not the whole state, so state numbers aren’t their grade. District-level scoring is in development. The state’s governor, Greg Abbott, holds the scored executive record.

Scored on their own record; district outcome scoring is in development. Methodology v2.2

What McCaul voted to fund

These pies aggregate the largest verified spending items — appropriations and mandatory outlays — in the bills McCaul 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 McCaul’s own votes — not a claim that McCaul wrote the spending or that it did or didn’t work. Click any slice to read the cited line-items.

Voted to fund
5 bills · voted Yea
$572.4Btracked
Voted against
3 bills · voted Nay
$1375.9Btracked

Voted to fund — every dollar, cited

income security$215.5B

veterans$146.9B

  • VA Medical Services — inpatient/outpatient care for veterans (FY2025 advance appropriation)$71,000,000,000
    H.R. 4366 — read the cited text →
  • Appropriation to the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund for veterans' health care (PACT Act), available Oct 1 2024 — Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$24,455,000,000
    H.R. 3746 — read the cited text →
  • VA Medical Community Care — care at non-Department facilities (FY2025 advance appropriation)$20,382,000,000
    H.R. 4366 — read the cited text →
  • Appropriation to the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund for veterans' health care (PACT Act), available Oct 1 2023 — Dept. of Veterans Affairs - Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$20,268,000,000
    H.R. 3746 — read the cited text →
  • Veterans Benefits Administration — General Operating Expenses$3,899,000,000
    H.R. 4366 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for the 31 FY2023 major medical facility leases — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$1,880,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to enter into enhanced-use leases of VA property (FY2022) — Department of Veterans Affairs$922,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2031) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$650,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2030) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$620,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2029) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$610,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2028) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$600,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Initial mandatory appropriation seeding the Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund (FY2022) — Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund$500,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2027) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$450,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2026) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$400,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2025) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$200,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →
  • Mandatory appropriation to the Medical Facilities account for major medical facility leases (FY2024) — Department of Veterans Affairs (Medical Facilities account)$100,000,000
    S. 3373 — read the cited text →

commerce & housing credit$67.0B

science$40.0B

defense$31.2B

other$24.9B

transportation$15.3B

water$11.7B

energy$10.7B

community & regional development$6.7B

broadband$1.5B

  • Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, FY2023 (Open RAN / wireless supply chain innovation) — NTIA (Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund)$1,350,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →
  • Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, FY2022 (Open RAN / wireless supply chain; $1.5B total with FY2023) — NTIA (Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund)$150,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →

health$676.0M

education$200.0M

  • CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund, FY2025 (NSF microelectronics workforce; $200,000,000 total) — National Science Foundation$50,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →
  • CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund, FY2026 (NSF microelectronics workforce; $200,000,000 total) — National Science Foundation$50,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →
  • CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund, FY2027 (NSF microelectronics workforce; $200,000,000 total) — National Science Foundation$50,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →
  • CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund, FY2023 (NSF microelectronics workforce; $200,000,000 total) — National Science Foundation$25,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →
  • CHIPS for America Workforce and Education Fund, FY2024 (NSF microelectronics workforce; $200,000,000 total) — National Science Foundation$25,000,000
    H.R. 4346 — read the cited text →

Voted against — every dollar, cited

community & regional development$406.0B

transportation$187.6B

education$162.4B

energy$117.3B

health$104.2B

other$102.4B

income security$85.8B

broadband$81.6B

commerce & housing credit$60.9B

water$28.5B

agriculture$22.3B

veterans$14.5B

environment$2.6B

Federal spending during McCaul’s current term

Total U.S. federal outlays for each fiscal year of McCaul’s current term. This is the whole federal budget — mostly Social Security, Medicare, defense, interest on the debt, and prior commitments — not money McCaul personally directed. A president proposes and Congress appropriates; no single official controls it.

FY25
$7.01T−$1.77T deficit

Source: OMB Historical Tables, Table 1.1 (Summary of Receipts, Outlays, and Surpluses or Deficits: 1789-present) · figures. Nominal dollars, by fiscal year (Oct–Sep).

How McCaul is graded

A representative serves a district, not a state, and no honest district-level outcome trend exists yet — redistricting redrew the lines and leaves too few data points. So McCaul is graded on what they control: how effectively they move legislation and how they vote. The state’s numbers are shown as context on the card, never folded into the grade, until district-level scoring ships.

Legislative Effectiveness Scores come from the Center for Effective Lawmaking, which benchmarks each chamber’s average to 1.0. Voting statistics come from GovTrack. The Honesty ledger — promises matched against this member’s votes — publishes only with an evidence trail and two agreeing human reviews.

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