Politician
U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Legislative data from the official House/Senate roll-call record via Voteview (UCLA) and the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset.
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Methodology: stated positions are AI-compiled from cited public sources; conflicts cross-reference them against the official roll-call record. Consistency = 100 − 12 per significant − 6 per moderate − 2 per minor conflict. Severity is editorial-model judgment — every item links its underlying vote so you can decide for yourself.
Supports a balanced budget amendment, opposes earmark spending, and voted against large COVID-19 relief packages including the $900 billion 2020 bill and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
🗳 Yea on HCONRES113 (2026-07-22)🗳 Yea on SCONRES33 (2026-04-29)
Supports right-to-work laws and voted against the PRO Act, which would have expanded union organizing and collective bargaining protections.
Describes himself as pro-life, believes life begins at conception, and has sponsored legislation to protect infant survivors of abortion while opposing taxpayer-funded abortion.
Favors lower corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth and opposes federal spending as a driver of the economy.
Supports building a border wall, ending sanctuary cities and chain migration, and shifting to merit-based immigration; backed the 2025 bill fully funding the wall and restoring Trump-era immigration enforcement policies.
Voted against the Equality Act, opposing new federal LGBTQ protections, while supporting keeping the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Joined a Supreme Court case seeking to discard presidential election votes in several states won by Biden, aligning with efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.
Praised the 2025 'One Big Beautiful Bill' for securing the border, cutting mandatory spending, reducing the deficit, and protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
