SCORECARD · MIKE BOST accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · IL-12 full conduct profile →
75/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
79
Connection density20%
62
Donor influence10%
81
Fact density10%
66
Constituency deviation5%
35
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 7

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 1

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

10% of 10 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage, July 2025
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Bost voted yea on legislation the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to deficits and cut approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP. His IL-12 district has 8.8-13.1% poverty, median household income of $68,540, and 24.4% bachelor's degree attainment — with thousands of residents dependent on Medicaid and SNAP in one of Illinois's most economically challenged rural districts. Only 2 Republicans voted nay, and Bost's vote aligned with the party's Trump-aligned fiscal posture rather than his own career-long fiscal-conservative rhetoric. The AFL-CIO, which gave him a 1% score for 2025, opposed the bill. The SBA Pro-Life America scorecard praised Bost for 'delivering the largest pro-life legislative victory in two decades by defunding Big Abortion businesses' through H.R. 1.
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03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 2

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Bost publicly stated that 'it is vitally important that the American people have faith in our elections and trust the results' — then voted to overturn those very results on January 6, 2021, hours after the Capitol was breached. The Illinois Education Association pulled its endorsement entirely, and protesters demonstrated outside his office calling for his resignation. He later suggested the intense distrust that led to the riot was caused by the election process, without acknowledging his own role in validating the false fraud claims that motivated the rioters.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Bost built his political brand as a fiscal conservative and anti-spending House Freedom Caucus member, yet voted yea on the OBBBA which the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt. Two years earlier, he voted against the much less deficit-expanding Fiscal Responsibility Act (debt ceiling deal). The reversal — opposing a bipartisan deal that restrained spending while supporting a GOP reconciliation bill that exploded the deficit — is a direct contradiction of his fiscal-conservative brand. The AFL-CIO gave him a 1% score for 2025.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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