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 panel Oversight built to help it

Fallon sits on the House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency. It sounds like a watchdog panel. Read what the Oversight Committee said it was for when it created it: its first chairwoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, was "excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the entire DOGE team," and Chairman James Comer's own announcement of his subcommittee chairs said "We look forward to working with President Trump to deliver on his mandate." The one committee whose job is to check the executive branch built itself a subcommittee to help the thing it should have been watching, and Fallon took a seat on it. 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. The EPA terminated more than $118 million in environmental grants that had been awarded to Texas organizations in the first three and a half months of the administration. And after all the chainsaw theatrics, DOGE never delivered anything close to the savings it promised — spending went up.

The watchdog never barked, because it was never built to.

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, some of them tell him to his face that he is 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 about half an hour late to a jam-packed agenda. 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 House, he was a coauthor of House Bill 2 in 2013 — the law that banned abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization and required providers to hold hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles and to rebuild their clinics to surgical-center standards. The Supreme Court struck both requirements down in 2016 as medically pointless, finding that Texas had gone from "more than 40 licensed abortion facilities" to about half that "in the wake of enforcement of the admitting-privileges requirement." In Congress he has kept it up. He has cosponsored at least twenty abortion-restriction bills across his three terms, including the Life at Conception Act in every one of them. That bill declares the constitutional right to life "vested in each human being," defined to include "each and every member of the species homo sapiens at all stages of life, including the moment of fertilization." The only thing it carves out is prosecuting the woman.

Sixty percent of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, against 38% who say it should be illegal. 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 constituents who turn up to tell 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.