Michael Cloud

Republican · TX-27 · U.S. House

Bio

Michael Jonathan Cloud is an American politician representing Texas's 27th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Full bio on Wikipedia →

Record of service

In office: 8.1 years
First took office: 2018 (5 terms)
Seniority: 187 of 437 by time served
Age: 51

District offices

Victoria, TX · 361-894-6446
Corpus Christi, TX · 361-884-2222

FEC filings ↗OpenSecrets ↗GovTrack ↗C-SPAN ↗Ballotpedia ↗Vote Smart ↗Facebook ↗Instagram ↗X/Twitter ↗YouTube ↗

Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$163k

2020

$229k

2021

$351k

2022

$287k

2023

$287k

2024

$451k

2025

$608k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $315k – $900k
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $315k – $900k
Since 2019: +$445k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 13 assets reported

RJ Money Market ⇒ Raymond James Money Market (FNSXX)$100k – $250k

TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS$50k – $100k

BANK ⇒ Capital One Account$15k – $50k

BANK ⇒ TDECU Accounts$15k – $50k

OTHER INVESTMENTS ⇒ Precious Metals$15k – $50k

Roth IRA ⇒ American Mutual Fund Class A Shares (AMRMX)$15k – $50k

Roth IRA ⇒ Capital Income Builder Cl A Shs (CAIBX)$15k – $50k

Roth IRA ⇒ New Perspective Fund, Class A Shares (ANWPX)$15k – $50k

Roth IRA ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class A Shares (AGTHX)$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.67

Healthcare

R+0.87

Immigration & Border

R+0.92

Guns

R+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.88

Crime & Policing

R+0.79

Defense & Veterans

R+0.32

Economy & Labor

R+0.76

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.54

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.44

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Michael Cloud's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

65%

30%

21%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

17%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Michael Cloud (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

Do you vote like Cloud?

Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.

Take the 2-minute quiz

Caucuses & committees

Where Cloudsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Cloud's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.