“Signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge, committing to oppose any and all efforts to increase federal income tax rates on individuals or businesses and to oppose any net reduction or elimination of tax deductions or credits unless matched dollar-for-dollar by further rate cuts.”
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McClain's record since taking office in Jan 2021 fully honors the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Wikipedia confirms she voted against the American Rescue Plan (2021) and the Inflation Reduction Act (2022), both of which raised federal taxes, and she supported the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act extending the TCJA tax cuts. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce independently describes her as a leader on tax reform 'working to ensure American businesses and workers won't face the largest automatic tax increase in American history.' No source shows her ever voting for a federal income-tax-rate increase, so the no-tax-increase pledge has been kept essentially 100% (FULL). The standard is applied neutrally: a member of either party with an equivalently consistent, adhered pledge would earn FULL. Confidence is 0.88 rather than higher because I could not directly confirm her 2020 entry on ATR's public signer list (the 2025 Michigan list shows only Tom Barrett; ATR treats candidate-signed pledges as binding for the term and does not re-list incumbents each cycle), but the substantive adherence record is well corroborated.
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