Pat Fallon has represented Texas's 4th District since 2021 — five years in Congress, after years in the Texas legislature before that. Here are 3 things Northeast Texas voters should know about his record.

He gave DOGE political cover — from the committee meant to watch it

Fallon sits on the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency — the panel whose whole job was to keep an eye on Elon Musk's DOGE. Instead of oversight, he offered cheerleading. He went on Fox Business to call DOGE "a unique opportunity here to fix our republic" and to argue the government isn't operating at maximum efficiency.

Here's what that "opportunity" did to Texas. The state has more than 249,000 federal employees — 8% of the entire federal workforce — making Texans especially exposed to DOGE's job cuts. DOGE also terminated more than $118 million in EPA environmental grants that had been awarded to Texas organizations. And after all the chainsaw theatrics, DOGE never delivered anything close to the savings it promised — spending went up.

The watchdog wagged its tail.

His own constituents keep telling him they're not happy

Give Fallon this much: unlike many of his colleagues, he does hold town halls. But when his constituents show up, they tell him — loud and clear — that he's failing them.

At a March 2025 town hall in Bonham, residents confronted him over DOGE — the cuts, Elon Musk, the gutted federal programs. He defended DOGE to their faces.

Then in October 2025, at a town hall in Sherman — rescheduled from August, held on the 13th day of a government shutdown — Fallon showed up half an hour late to a packed room. Constituents pressed him on Texas Instruments layoffs (one resident pointed out the company took "$1 billion" in taxpayer money), on cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, and on fears that Social Security won't keep up with rising costs.

Showing up is the bare minimum. Listening is the job. His constituents keep telling him what's hurting them, and he keeps voting like he never heard it.

He's spent his career trying to control women's bodies

Fallon's record on abortion goes back over a decade. In the Texas legislature, he supported House Bill 2 in 2013 — the law that banned abortion after 20 weeks and piled medically unnecessary rules on providers, forcing clinics across Texas to close. In Congress, he's kept it up: opposing Roe v. Wade and backing federal efforts to restrict abortion nationwide.

Almost two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. These are personal decisions that belong to patients, their doctors, and their faith. Fallon thinks the government — meaning him — should make them for you.

So who does Pat Fallon work for?

Ask the question three times and you get the same answer. Musk's DOGE over the Texans whose jobs and grants it shredded. His talking points over the packed rooms of constituents telling him they're hurting. His own beliefs over your family's most private decisions. After five years in Washington and a career in Austin before that, the one group that never tops his list is the people of the 4th District. The 2026 ballot is where that gets an answer.