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FIRST ON FOX: Home Funds Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, won’t search re-election in 2026.
The senior Republican lawmaker could have completed serving a decade in Congress when he leaves on the finish of subsequent yr.
“I’ve a agency conviction, very like our founders did, that public service is a lifetime dedication, however public workplace is and must be a brief stint in stewardship, not a profession,” Arrington mentioned.
And the conservative Texan informed Fox Information Digital he felt he was leaving on a excessive notice, having performed a key function in crafting President Donald Trump’s massive, lovely invoice.
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Chairman Rep. Jodey Arrington speaks at a information convention after the Home narrowly handed a invoice forwarding President Donald Trump’s agenda on the U.S. Capitol on Could 22, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
“It was a really distinctive, generational influence alternative, to be virtually ten years into this and to have the finances chairmanship, and to guide the cost to efficiently move that and to assist this president fulfill his mandate from the individuals,” Arrington mentioned. “It simply looks like an excellent and proper place to depart it.”
He cited a number of legislative gadgets throughout his tenure as Funds Committee chair when requested what he took delight in, however added, “It is extra of adjusting the narrative and the tradition in Congress and in my occasion that I am most pleased with.”
“I am from a rural district and I can let you know, elevating the profile amongst city and suburban members as to the distinctive challenges of rural America and the distinctive contributions of rural America — like meals safety and vitality independence and the way a lot the nation will depend on these plow boys and cowboys in rural areas — that is one other factor I am pleased with,” he mentioned.
Arrington mentioned he had religion Republicans in Washington would choose up his mantle of fiscal hawkishness, or as he is usually referred to as it, “reversing the curse” of public debt.
“The president’s dedicated to it, he talks about it on a regular basis. He is truly doing one thing about it with very tough choices, not politically widespread choices. That is all about political will,” Arrington mentioned. “Trump’s doing it. Mike Johnson is dedicated to it… And now we have a rising variety of fiscal hawks who’re completely dogged on this situation.”
U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, indicators the One, Large Lovely Invoice Act into legislation throughout an Independence Day navy household picnic on the South Garden of the White Home on July 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Photographs)
However he mentioned he would proceed to push for additional fiscal reforms for his remaining yr on Capitol Hill, together with one other finances reconciliation invoice to observe up on the large, lovely invoice.
“I do not know the place the Senate Republicans are. I do not know the place the president is and might’t communicate for the White Home. However the Home is on the prepared,” Arrington mentioned. “It has been our most consequential software to assist the president and the power of the nation, and I do not see any purpose we would not put it to use to its fullest extent.”
The West Texas Republican mentioned he had not given a lot thought to what he would do subsequent however mentioned he wished to “stay within the struggle,” including he would search a “new management problem” that “permits me to make the largest distinction on as many individuals as I can.”
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“After which I might say…I’m wanting ahead to high quality time with my spouse and youngsters and specializing in my management and repair, not within the individuals’s home, however in my very own home,” Arrington mentioned.
He mentioned he hoped to “make a distinction” within the lives of his two younger sons and daughter.
Arrington’s Lubbock-anchored district leans closely Republican, that means it is unlikely to flip to blue within the 2026 midterms.
And are available the tip of his time subsequent yr, the conservative lawmaker mentioned he would go away with no regrets.
Arrington is pictured along with his spouse Anne and their youngsters, (from left to proper) Henry, Nate, and Jane. (Workplace of Congressman Jodey Arrington)
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“I am grateful that God referred to as me and gave me the grace to succeed and to realize the issues that we have achieved,” Arrington mentioned.
“His grace appears just like the members of Congress that I have been doing battle with, my finances hawks who I have been within the trenches with, my constituents who I run into within the grocery retailer, who wish to pray with me proper there within the aisle whereas I am trying out. The grace of God appears like my spouse being each mother and pa about two-thirds of the time, as a result of I am in Washington doing battle for the nation.”
He completed, “Did I make my share of errors? You guess. Did I study alongside the best way? You guess I did. However we left [the country] higher than we discovered it, and it offers me nice satisfaction.”
