SCORECARD · ROBERT J. WITTMAN accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · VA-1 full conduct profile →
85/100
CRITICAL CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
95
Contradiction risk25%
95
Connection density20%
77
Donor influence10%
78
Fact density10%
77
Constituency deviation5%
19
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.

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Silence on donor-funded topics 8

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 1

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

14.3% 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] Wittman's Yea vote (218-214) is the defining vote of his 18-year congressional career. He was one of the two Virginia Republicans who signed letters vowing not to cut Medicaid — then voted for a bill the CBO found would cut approximately $930 billion from Medicaid and add $3-4 trillion to the deficit. An estimated 260,000 Virginians were projected to lose health coverage. Simultaneously, ITEP found Wittman would personally save up to $59,300 annually from the bill's pass-through business deduction applied to his $1.5M Outer Banks beach rental — the highest personal tax savings of any lawmaker who voted for the bill. His district's 6.43% poverty rate and rural hospitals — including Rappahannock General Hospital in his district, identified as at risk of closure — made the Medicaid cuts particularly impactful. As Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, his institutional vote carried weight. His top donors — Misc Defense ($248,311), Defense Aerospace ($148,415), and Altria Group ($32,560) — strongly supported the bill's defense spending and corporate tax provisions. End Citizens United named Wittman one of its 'Most Corrupt Politicians' for 2026, citing this vote. The DCCC elevated VA-01 to a targeted 2026 district. Wittman voted Yea on the May 22 first passage and again on the July 3 final concurrence.
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03

Broken promises 1

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

  • Robert Wittman: signed the April 2025 Medicaid red line, then voted for the cuts BROKE · 2025-07-03
    On July 3, 2025, Robert Wittman voted Yea on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Roll Call 190, passed 218-214) — legislation the Congressional Budget Office projected would cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over the following decade and leave millions more Americans without health coverage. Only two House Republicans voted no; one, Brian Fitzpatrick, cited the bill's deeper Medicaid cuts.
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Documented contradictions 4

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

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    Wittman voted for a bill the CBO projected would add $3-4 trillion to the deficit — while simultaneously benefiting personally from the bill's tax provisions. The ITEP analysis found he would save up to $59,300 annually from the pass-through business deduction applied to his Outer Banks beach rental, making his personal tax savings the highest of any lawmaker who voted for the bill. The DCCC documented he 'voted to slash taxes on his triple decker beach house' and his net worth 'more than tripled' while serving in Congress.
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    Wittman's official press release was headlined 'Wittman Votes to Protect Medicaid' and claimed the bill 'strengthens Medicaid for Americans who need it most' and 'protects resources for pregnant women, single mothers, children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities.' The CBO projected the opposite — approximately $930 billion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years — and Virginia Democrats documented that his own district's Rappahannock General Hospital was at risk of closure due to the bill. A constituent letter in the Virginian-Pilot called his framing 'spin.'
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Wittman signed two separate letters to House leadership vowing he could not support legislation with 'any reduction in Medicaid coverage for vulnerable populations.' Less than six weeks later, he voted for a bill enacting the largest Medicaid cuts in U.S. history — approximately $930 billion — which the Virginia Democratic Party estimated would cause at least 260,000 Virginians to lose insurance coverage. The Virginian-Pilot editorial board headlined: 'Despite Medicaid pledges, Wittman and Kiggans folded.'
  • same_source_inconsistency SCORE 30
    Wittman positioned himself as a staunch Ukraine supporter — authoring legislation for a Special IG for Ukraine aid and voting for $60.8 billion in assistance. Simultaneously, he traded shares of defense contractor companies while sitting on the House Armed Services Committee and failed to properly disclose those trades for nearly a year in violation of the STOCK Act. Both positions are documented from Wittman's own press releases and from the Denver Gazette's reporting on his financial disclosures. The juxtaposition of a national-security hawk voting to fund defense contractors while trading their stocks and failing to disclose those trades is notable.
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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. "Robert J. Wittman — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-w000804.

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