“Pledged (via the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge) to oppose any and all efforts to increase marginal income tax rates for individuals and businesses, and to oppose any net reduction or elimination of tax deductions and credits unless matched dollar-for-dollar by further rate cuts.”
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Independently re-verified. (a) OnTheIssues directly confirms Walberg signed the ATR Taxpayer Protection Pledge ('Walberg signed Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge') and documents a consistent anti-tax record (FairTax/H.R.25 cosponsor, YES on Death Tax Repeal, NO on AMT-relief offsets). (b) Legilist confirms H.R.1 (119th Cong.) is a reconciliation bill that 'reduces taxes'; it records the May 22, 2025 initial House passage (215-214, Roll 145) and the July 3, 2025 final passage was 218-214 (Roll 190) making the 2017 TCJA marginal-rate cuts permanent. The prior rating correctly cited roll call 190 as the final passage. Only two House Republicans (Massie, Fitzpatrick) defected on July 3, so Walberg's YEA is essentially certain and matches his own press-release headline. This is a negative/ongoing pledge (oppose any/all marginal-rate increases; oppose net deduction/credit cuts unless matched by rate cuts); no evidence of any violation was found. A clean, consistently honored record on a promise-to-oppose = FULL, and the same standard would yield FULL for an opposite-party signer with an equally clean record — no partisan leniency detected. Confidence held at 0.85 because a career-long 'any and all' pledge cannot be exhaustively verified against every minor tax/fee vote, and clerk.house.gov/GovTrack roll-call pages returned 403 on direct re-fetch (Walberg's specific vote corroborated indirectly rather than pulled from the raw tally).
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