{"id":44872,"date":"2025-11-11T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:50:08","slug":"fox-news-digital-lubbocks-congressman-jodey-arrington-wont-seek-reelection-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44872\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Digital: Lubbock&#8217;s Congressman Jodey Arrington won&#8217;t seek reelection in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jodey Arrington, who has served Lubbock and wide swath of West Texas in the House of Representatives since 2017, will not seek re-election in 2026, according to a Fox News Digital report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a firm conviction, much like our founders did, that public service is a lifetime commitment, but public office is and should be a temporary stint in stewardship, not a career,\u201d Arrington told Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican felt he was leaving on a high note, having played a key role in crafting President Donald Trump\u2019s big, beautiful bill, Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>Arrington said he had not given much thought as to what\u2019s next, but wants to spend more time with his family, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lubbocklights.com\/please-press-the-button-and-become-a-lubbock-lights-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/volunteer_activism_96dp_000000_FILL0_wght400_GRAD0_opsz48.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11787\" style=\"width:80px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jodey Arrington, who has served Lubbock and wide swath of West Texas in the House of Representatives since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-44872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}