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Wesley Hunt

RepublicanTexasOutgoing · currently serving

Sworn in for the 119th Congress on Source ↗

What they said 6

Their stated policy positions and commitments, with quotes and links to the original sources.

Campaign position · Original date not established

Build tunnels under Houston to address flooding

AI-assisted summary

Hunt says Congress should address Houston’s flooding by building tunnels underneath the city to guide excess water into the Houston Ship Channel. He favors this approach rather than expanding Buffalo Bayou.

Context: Hunt gives no further details about the tunnels or how the project would be carried out.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Support voter ID and election-integrity measures

AI-assisted summary

Hunt says he will support voter ID and other measures intended to ensure that all legal registered voters can have faith that their votes are counted. He presents these measures as part of defending free and fair elections.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Support deportations as part of securing the southern border

AI-assisted summary

Hunt says he is fighting alongside President Trump to support Tom Homan’s efforts to deport people he calls “Biden’s illegal immigrants.” He places this support within a broader border agenda that also includes deploying the military to the border and labeling Mexican drug cartels as terrorists.

Context: Hunt does not define whom he means by “Biden’s illegal immigrants” or specify how the deportation efforts would work.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists

AI-assisted summary

Hunt says he is fighting alongside President Trump to have Mexican drug cartels labeled as terrorists as part of his effort to secure the southern border. In the same border-security statement, he also supports deploying the military to the border and Tom Homan’s efforts to deport immigrants he calls Biden’s illegal immigrants.

Context: The statement does not identify which cartels, who would make the designation, or the process for doing so.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Deploy the military to the southern border

AI-assisted summary

Hunt says he is fighting alongside President Trump to deploy the military to the border as part of securing the southern border. He does not specify what role the military would have or when deployment would occur.

Context: The campaign statement gives no details about the military’s role or the conditions or timing for deployment.

Campaign position · commitment · Original date not established

Codify DOGE-identified spending as wasteful

AI-assisted summary

Hunt says he is fighting alongside President Trump to codify DOGE cuts. He says he supported DOGE from the start and voted to codify the spending DOGE identified as wasteful, describing the effort as cutting fraud, waste, and abuse discovered under President Biden.

Context: The campaign statement does not identify the specific cuts or legislation.