Wesley Hunt
Republican · TX-38 · U.S. House
TX-38 — U.S. House
Safe R 97%Wesley Hunt is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Melissa McDonough vs. Jon Bonck. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Wesley Parish Hunt is an American politician and former U.S. Army officer serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 38th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he placed third in the Republican primary in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Texas.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 353 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 44
- Houston, TX · 832-357-0555
- Tomball, TX · 346-246-7355
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
- Assets
- $282k – $680k
- Liabilities
- $345k – $695k
- Net worth
- −$413k – $335k
- Since 2020
- +$333k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 8 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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
Wesley Hunt's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Wesley Hunt (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Huntsits 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.
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hunt'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Trump’s Saudi ambassador pick faces early hurdlesThe News President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, is staring down a potentially difficult confirmation fight due to hurdles from a tight Senate calendar and skepticism among Republicans. Hunt’s nomination this w…
Biztoc.com · September 17, 2026- Trump Nominates Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) for U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The president’s proposal of Wesley Hunt comes amid a wave of nominations two months prior to the midterm elections, which would decide whether or …
Freerepublic.com · September 15, 2026 
Trump Picks Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt For Saudi Ambassador RolePresident Donald Trump has nominated Texas Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, with the nomination formally sent to the Senate. Hunt, a former Army officer, served two deployments in Saudi Arabia as a diplomatic l…
Biztoc.com · September 15, 2026
Trump nominates Rep. Wesley Hunt as US ambassador to Saudi ArabiaPresident Trump nominates Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt as ambassador to Saudi Arabia as Washington pushes closer ties between Riyadh and Israel.
Israelnationalnews.com · September 15, 2026
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