THE TAKETrailAI · auto-generated
Valadao's $10.2 million fundraising profile is moderately reliant on institutional money, with 58% from PACs and committees and 42% from individual donors, alongside $2.7 million in party and leadership contributions. Industry-tied donations reflect a donor base concentrated in agriculture, real estate, and legal services, with smaller shares from defense and health sectors; his individual donor base similarly clusters in agriculture, real estate, and law. His voting record spans 338 recorded votes with no stock trade disclosures on file.
Raised · all cycles$10.2M▲ 18% in ’24 vs ’22#34 in party · by cycle ↴
Top sector share17%Agriculture
Donor-sector votes25on bills touching top donor sectors
FOLLOW THE MONEY
Left: who funds Valadao (ribbon width = dollars) · right: their votes on bills classified as favoring vs limiting those sectors
“Favors / limits” is an AI classification of each bill's likely effect on the sector — a factual reading of the bill, not a claim about motive. Correlation, not causation. The named bills are in DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES? below.
DOES THE MONEY MATCH THE VOTES?
How Valadao voted on bills touching their biggest donor sectors · 6 of 25 shown, ranked by sector money
Each dollar figure is Valadao's total from that donor sector — shown on each related vote, not a per-vote amount. Correlation between funding and votes, not causation; many factors shape any single vote.
TOP SOURCES
1$1.5M
HMP
PAC
2$836K
GROW THE MAJORITY
PAC
3$624K
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND
PAC
4$413K
PROTECT THE HOUSE 2024
PAC
5$341K
EMMER MAJORITY BUILDERS
PAC
ALIGNMENT SIGNALS
Sector-Aligned Voting97%
David G. Valadao (R) voted YEA on 14 of 14 bills classified as favoring their donor sectors — #21 rate in the House
Rep. David G. Valadao voted yes on 14 of 14 bills (100%) classified as favoring Real Estate, Defense & Aerospace, or Securities & Investment—his top donor sectors—ranking 21st highest among House members on this metric. He voted yes on HR6644-119, the "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act" classified as favoring Real Estate, and also voted yes on all 3 tracked bills classified as limiting these sectors.
Committee–Donor Overlap70%
David G. Valadao (R) sits on the Agriculture committee overseeing Agriculture — their largest tracked donor sector (13%)
David G. Valadao (R-CA) sits on the House Committee on Agriculture, which has jurisdiction over the Agriculture sector. Agriculture comprises 12.5% of his donor base ($1.28M), ranking him 26th among 272 Republicans in this sector concentration.
COMMITTEES
Agriculture
Appropriations
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