“Secure the U.S. southern border, including building a wall along the southern border and enforcing the "Remain in Mexico" policy; Bost voted to pass H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act.”
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Independently re-verified all three cited primary sources with a direct fetch (congress.gov and clerk.house.gov both blocked the WebFetch UA, so I retrieved them via curl with a browser UA). The House Clerk's official Roll Call 209 XML confirms Rep. Mike Bost (B001295, party=R, state=IL) voted 'Yea' on H R 2, the 'Secure the Border Act,' vote-result 'Passed', action-date 11-May-2023, tally 219-213. Congress.gov's official summary confirms the bill directly advances this promise: it requires DHS to 'resume all activities related to constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border' and to build a border wall along 'at least 900 miles,' and its Title II is 'BORDER SAFETY AND MIGRANT PROTECTION' (the Remain-in-Mexico-style asylum/return provision). The congress.gov status page shows the latest actions as 'Passed House (05/11/2023)' and 'Received in the Senate' with no 'Became Law' action, confirming it stalled in the Senate and was never enacted. Bost cast one supporting vote among 219 Republicans (only 2 GOP no votes); he was not the sponsor (Rep. Diaz-Balart) or floor leader, and there is no evidence he led or drove the effort beyond his vote, so CHAMPIONED does not apply. Because nothing was enacted, no part of the promise (wall, Remain in Mexico) was actually fulfilled, so PARTIAL does not apply. He genuinely voted for and advanced the measure, but it did not land: ATTEMPTED (+0.25) is the correct, party-neutral outcome — the same label any member of either party would receive for a single supporting vote on a signature bill that passed one chamber and died in the other. Rating confirmed.
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