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Ben Cline
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Foreign-lobby money compromises America First. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel; AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures against U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. A candidate who has accepted that money has, in their own revealed preference, accepted a foreign-policy filter on their congressional vote. The same logic covers China-linked donations, where federal law also prohibits CCP members from contributing.
For every candidate with a documented donor record, two things happen: (1) the specific category question is marked False (foreign_policy_restraint[q4] for AIPAC + China; economic_stewardship[q5] — the WEF/ESG/Davos capture question — for Soros-network donors), so the per-category subscore drops by 2 points; (2) an additional dollar-bracket adjustment is applied to the total, making the penalty proportional to the magnitude of the funding. Both impacts are visible on this page.
- AIPAC / pro-Israel-lobby contributions-10TrackAIPAC career-total report shows $55,541 from AIPAC and pro-Israel-lobby PACs.AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures targeting U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel. RESOLUTE Citizen treats documented AIPAC contributions as a failure on foreign_policy_restraint/q4 (the foreign-lobby question) AND applies a dollar-bracket adjustment to the total score.
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Established a 16-year staunchly anti-abortion record in the Virginia House of Delegates before Congress; in the House voted consistently to stop taxpayer dollars from funding abortion domestically and internationally, cosponsored the Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act, and pushed back on Biden-era pro-abortion executive actions — matching the rubric's life-at-conception and protection-of-the-unborn standard.
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Cline voted for H.R. 3492, the Protect Children's Innocence Act of 2025 (House Vote #351, December 17, 2025, 216–211), which establishes federal criminal penalties for physicians who perform gender-transition surgeries or administer cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs to minors — rejecting gender ideology and affirming biological sex as immutable in federal law.
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Cline cosponsored H.R. 1919, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act (119th Congress), which prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a retail central bank digital currency or maintaining individual financial accounts. The bill passed the House 219–210 on July 17, 2025, with Cline's co-sponsorship on record — blocking a government-issued digital dollar that would enable unprecedented real-time financial surveillance of American citizens.
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As Chair of the Republican Study Committee Budget & Spending Taskforce, Cline authored the 'Fiscal Sanity to Save America' proposal that would balance the federal budget within seven years by cutting $16.7 trillion over ten years. He has consistently voted against large deficit-financed spending packages — including a 'no' vote on the $4 trillion debt-ceiling hike — and earned the Club for Growth 'Defender of Economic Freedom' award for maintaining a 90%+ anti-spending score across 2022, 2023, and 2024.
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Voted for H.R.2, the Secure the Border Act of 2023, which funds border-wall construction, tightens asylum standards, and expands enforcement capacity; has repeatedly called Biden's open-border policies a national crisis and stated that 'every town' in Virginia has become a border town due to fentanyl, human trafficking, and illegal immigration.
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Voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, May 2025) which includes mandatory deportation enforcement: enhanced detention capacity, expanded removal authority, and mandatory ICE cooperation for criminal aliens — consistent with the rubric's standard of mandatory deportation. Cline stated the bill 'secures our border' as one of the core promises House Republicans made.
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Cosponsored legislation demanding the FBI and DOJ purge firearms-related records on individuals who were coerced or unduly pressured into waiving their gun rights — a pro-Second Amendment position consistent with the rubric's rejection of background-check overreach and firearm registries.
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