SCORECARD · GABE EVANS accountability readout

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82/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
99
Contradiction risk25%
95
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
73
Fact density10%
94
Constituency deviation5%
58
Voting misalignment5%
1

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 9

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 4

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

50% of 8 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.J.Res. 72 ↗ NAY 2026-02-11
    Resolution disapproving of Trump's emergency tariff on Canada
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Evans voted to keep 25% tariffs on Canadian imports in place, opposing a bipartisan resolution (219-211) that fellow Colorado Republican Jeff Hurd supported. Canada is Colorado's second-largest trading partner ($1.6B in exports). Hurd cited constituent farmers and manufacturers harmed by the tariffs. Evans' vote protected Trump's trade policy against the material interests of Colorado agricultural and manufacturing constituents. Six Republicans defected; Evans did not.
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Trump tax-and-spending reconciliation package, final passage)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Evans was the deciding vote (218-214) for the OBBB, which the CBO projected would cut approximately $880 billion from Medicaid and $300 billion from SNAP. An estimated 140,000-230,000 Coloradans faced Medicaid coverage loss, including about 26,257 in his own district. Constituents booed him at a Denver press conference chanting 'one and done' and 'Gabe you lie.' Evans defended the bill claiming it 'protects Medicaid' and 'strengthens Medicaid for the most vulnerable.'
  • H.R. 1 (Committee) ↗ YEA 2025-05-14
    Energy and Commerce Committee budget reconciliation markup (Medicaid cuts)
    why contradicted?
    [reversal] On the Energy and Commerce Committee, Evans voted with Republicans 30-24 on party lines to advance $625 billion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years. Less than three months later, he co-introduced the Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act and introduced a resolution celebrating Medicaid's 60th anniversary — an apparent effort to recast himself as a Medicaid supporter after voting for the largest cuts in the program's history.
  • H.Con.Res.14 YEA 2025-02-25
    House Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution (reconciliation framework)
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Evans voted for the budget blueprint that set the stage for deep Medicaid and SNAP cuts, despite the CBO determining the Energy and Commerce Committee's $880 billion target could not be met without cutting benefits. Evans claimed 'Medicaid cuts aren't specifically listed in the resolution' and the focus was on 'waste, fraud, and abuse,' but the nonpartisan CBO analysis contradicted this framing.
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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 4

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

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Evans publicly advocated for preserving clean energy tax credits in March 2025, then voted in July 2025 for H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation package that effectively repealed those same clean energy tax credits. After the vote, he sent a letter asking the Senate to 'mitigate' the damage of the bill he had just voted for. A $190 million clean energy project was paused in his district weeks after his vote.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Evans built his political identity and hardline immigration stance on his grandfather's claimed 'legal' immigration path. Government documents show the grandfather entered illegally, lived undocumented for 12 years, and was arrested for an immigration violation — directly contradicting Evans' repeated public statements. Evans' spokesperson subsequently argued that in 'Hispanic culture, immigrating the right way generally means working hard' — a departure from Evans' repeated use of the word 'legally.'
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Evans built his immigration policy narrative around his grandfather who he repeatedly claimed immigrated 'legally.' Federal documents revealed his grandfather entered the country illegally at age 5 and lived undocumented for over a decade. Evans' own proposed immigration policies would have resulted in his grandfather's deportation.
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 60
    Evans campaigned on lowering costs and claimed to believe in free trade, but twice voted to protect Trump's cost-spiking tariffs that economic analysis shows cost American families over $1,700 in higher prices — contradicting his stated priority of reducing inflation.
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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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