FROM FOX NEWS: House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, will not seek re-election in 2026.
The senior Republican lawmaker will have finished serving a decade in Congress when he leaves at the end of next year.
And the conservative Texan told Fox News Digital he felt he was leaving on a high note, having played a key role in crafting President Donald Trump’s big, beautiful bill.
Arrington said that while he has “a firm conviction, much like our founders did, that public service is a lifetime commitment,” he believes that “public office is and should be a temporary stint in stewardship, not a career.”
“It was a very unique, generational impact opportunity, to be almost ten years into this and to have the budget chairmanship, and to lead the charge to successfully pass that and to help this president fulfill his mandate from the people,” Arrington told Fox. “It just seems like a good and right place to leave it.”
While he feels that he’s contributed legislatively, he said he’s more proud of his part in “changing the narrative and the culture in Congress and in my party .”
“I’m from a rural district and I can tell you, raising the profile among urban and suburban members as to the unique challenges of rural America and the unique contributions of rural America — like food security and energy independence and how much the nation depends on these plow boys and cowboys in rural areas — that’s another thing I’m proud of,” he said.
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