Help balance the budget and reduce unnecessary government spending.

Pete wants your vote to continue delivering on: ... Helping balance the budget and reduce unnecessary socialist government spending

Commitment to support budget balancing and spending reduction.

Issues – Pete Sessions for Congress
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Balance the federal budget without raising any new taxes

Commits to balancing the federal budget and explicitly says he will not do it by raising new taxes.

Meet Pete – Pete Sessions for Congress
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If elected to the majority, Republicans will freeze new federal discretionary spending and place a moratorium on creating any new federal program, while stopping any significant expansion of federal agencies.

The page promises to freeze discretionary spending, halt new federal programs, and stop major federal agency expansion.

Restore the value of the dollar. – Pete Sessions for Congress
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Roll Call 94 on H. Res. 313 passed the House on Apr. 9, 2025; the member list shows Pete Sessions (TX) voted Aye on the resolution providing for consideration of the FY2025 congressional budget framework.

Sessions supported a House budget-resolution procedural vote in 2025, which is consistent with voting to advance budget legislation but does not itself show a balanced budget was achieved.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 94 | H. Res. 313
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The Treasury report says the budget deficit was about $1.8 trillion in FY2025 and that the debt-to-GDP ratio was 99 percent at the end of FY2025; it also describes current policy as unsustainable.

Federal finances remained in deep deficit during Sessions's current term, so the specific promise to help balance the budget was not achieved.

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U.S. Department of the Treasury - Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Report of the United States Government
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Sessions says Congress must rein in the federal government and that he will work to 'reduce wasteful and unnecessary spending' and hold agencies accountable.

His own official issue page shows an explicit commitment to cutting unnecessary spending, supporting that he made the promise and continued to campaign/advocate on it.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions - Government Accountability
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Sessions announced the RED TAPE Act to 'rein in bureaucratic spending' and said he is committed to preventing government agencies from wasteful spending on non-monetized or unqualified factors.

He took concrete legislative action aimed at reducing government spending waste, which shows effort but not a completed budget-balancing result.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions - Congressman Sessions Introduces RED TAPE Act to Rein in Bureaucracy
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Sessions said House Republicans were putting an end to 'wasteful spending' and that the FY2024 appropriations package made 'targeted cuts to wasteful non-defense programs.'

This is another concrete spending-related action/statement in favor of cuts, but it is not evidence that the overall federal budget was balanced.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions - Sessions Statement on Codification of Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024
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In House debate on the balanced budget amendment, Sessions said the federal budget had eclipsed $15 trillion and that he would vote in favor of a balanced budget amendment because the country has a spending problem.

This shows long-running support for balanced-budget measures, but the amendment itself was not enacted and does not establish fulfillment of the promise.

partial unknown A for effort

Congressional Record, House proceedings
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