SCORECARD · RYAN MACKENZIE accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · PA-7 full conduct profile →
74/100
HIGH CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
85
Contradiction risk25%
97
Connection density20%
49
Donor influence10%
54
Fact density10%
77
Constituency deviation5%
51
Voting misalignment5%
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Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

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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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Vote-vs-platform contradictions 2

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

28.6% of 7 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act — On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment and Final Passage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Mackenzie's Yea vote (218-214) was the defining vote of his freshman term. He was one of the last Republicans to commit, telling CNN in April 2025 he was 'still weighing his options,' then casting an 'essential vote' that allowed the bill to pass by a single vote. The CBO projected the bill would cut ~$930 billion from Medicaid and add $3-4 trillion to the deficit. His district's 10.5% poverty rate, 85% of Allentown children relying on Medicaid or SNAP, and 72,000 Medicaid recipients in PA-07 made the cuts directly harmful to his constituents. He touted the bill as delivering 'tax relief' and 'securing the border.' The AFL-CIO and CWA scored him 0% on all key 2025 votes. His vote drew weekly protests outside his office ('Mondays with Mackenzie') and was opposed by all three Democratic candidates seeking to challenge him in 2026.
  • H.Con.Res.14 ↗ YEA 2025-02-25
    House Budget Resolution FY2025 — Initiating Reconciliation for OBBB
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] Mackenzie voted Yea (217-215) on the budget resolution that directed the Energy and Commerce Committee to cut $880 billion. When constituents confronted him, he disputed that he voted for Medicaid cuts, calling it a 'framework.' The CBO confirmed the cuts were impossible without touching Medicaid or Medicare. The DCCC reported 72,000 constituents and 40,000 households in PA-07 rely on Medicaid and SNAP. This procedural vote was the gateway to the OBBB, and Mackenzie's subsequent denial that he had voted for Medicaid cuts became a central controversy of his first term.
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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.

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Documented contradictions 5

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

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Mackenzie voted for a Balanced Budget Amendment to constitutionally require balanced federal budgets, while simultaneously having voted for the OBBB, which the CBO projected would add $3-4 trillion to the deficit. Voting for a constitutional balanced budget requirement while supporting the most deficit-expanding legislation of the Trump era is a foundational fiscal contradiction.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Mackenzie told constituents he had not voted for Medicaid cuts — characterizing his vote as a mere 'framework.' The nonpartisan CBO confirmed the budget resolution directed $880 billion in cuts from programs where Medicaid and Medicare represent 97% of spending. Mackenzie then voted twice for the OBBB, which enacted those cuts. His framing of his votes as not cutting Medicaid is contradicted by the CBO analysis.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Mackenzie publicly signed a letter supporting clean energy tax credits and praising them for lowering utility costs and boosting domestic manufacturing. He then voted for the OBBB, which eliminated those same credits. El Diario NY noted he is 'one of 21 Republicans who publicly supported clean energy tax credits and then voted to rip them away.' A constituent letter in the Morning Call asked him to 'recommit to his original support.'
  • position_evolution SCORE 60
    As a state representative, Mackenzie voted to shut down the government in September 2023. As a congressman representing a competitive district in November 2025, he voted to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history and subsequently touted the federal funding he secured for his district. The evolution from anti-spending insurgent to appropriations pragmatist tracks with his transition from safe state legislative seat to competitive congressional district.
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    [auto-downgraded: both claims come from the same source host] Mackenzie spent a decade calling the ACA an 'infringement upon our rights' and bragging about opposing Medicaid expansion as a state representative. After voting for the OBBB which cut Medicaid by ~$930 billion — drawing weekly protests outside his office — he pivoted to signing a discharge petition to extend ACA subsidies, giving himself political cover in his competitive R+1 district. The Heartland Signal documented this decade-long reversal as a 'flip-flop' driven by electoral vulnerability.
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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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CitationGoblin House. "Ryan Mackenzie — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-m001230.

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