SCORECARD · BRETT GUTHRIE accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · KY-2 full conduct profile →
81/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
91
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
100
Fact density10%
73
Constituency deviation5%
44
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 3

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

30% of 10 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.J.Res. 139 ↗ YEA 2026-02-25
    Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] A balanced budget amendment would likely force deep cuts to federal programs including Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security upon which a significant share of aging, lower-income KY-2 constituents depend.
  • H.Con.Res. 14 ↗ YEA 2025-02-25
    FY 2025 Budget Resolution — Framework directing $880 billion in spending cuts from Energy and Commerce Committee jurisdiction, largely from Medicaid
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] As E&C Committee Chair, Guthrie voted to advance the reconciliation framework that mandated massive Medicaid cuts. Kentucky has one of the highest Medicaid enrollment rates in the nation, with the program covering nearly 1 in 3 residents.
  • H.R. 1628 ↗ YEA 2017-05-04
    American Health Care Act — Repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act; projected to cause 23 million Americans to lose health coverage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Guthrie voted to repeal the ACA including its Medicaid expansion, directly affecting Kentucky where nearly 1 in 3 residents rely on Medicaid. In 2016, Kentucky's uninsured rate had dropped from 14.3% pre-ACA to 5.9% under the ACA.
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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 3

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

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Guthrie introduced legislation to weaken Medicare's ability to negotiate lower drug prices (H.R. 7174) while simultaneously being the top recipient of pharmaceutical industry campaign cash in Congress, having received $507,000 from the industry in the 2024 cycle alone.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Guthrie publicly claimed the One Big Beautiful Bill would 'protect health care for our most vulnerable Americans,' yet the reconciliation framework he voted for and helped negotiate directed $880 billion in cuts largely from Medicaid, the program covering nearly 1 in 3 Kentuckians.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Guthrie publicly characterized student loan forgiveness as a taxpayer-funded 'bribe,' yet his own family business received $4.3 million in federal PPP loan forgiveness — a direct taxpayer subsidy. The Kentucky Democratic Party noted this represented the equivalent of four years of tuition for about 97 Western Kentucky University students.
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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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