{"id":44950,"date":"2025-11-11T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44950\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:04:08","slug":"lubbock-congressman-jodey-arrington-not-seeking-re-election-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/44950\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Congressman Jodey Arrington not seeking re-election in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; House Budget Committee Chairman and Lubbock Representative Jodey Arrington says he will not seek re-election in 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\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 Rep. Arrington said in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-house-committee-chairman-reveals-he-wont-seek-re-election-2026\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/top-house-committee-chairman-reveals-he-wont-seek-re-election-2026\">interview with Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Arrington has served in Congress since 2017. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1349246306661189&amp;set=a.466407988278363\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1349246306661189&amp;set=a.466407988278363\">President Trump endorsed Arrington<\/a> for another term just eight days ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; House Budget Committee Chairman and Lubbock Representative Jodey Arrington says he will not seek&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4825,319,251,168,26267,170,169,287,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-44950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-jodey-arrington","9":"tag-kcbd","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-lubbock","12":"tag-lubbock-congressman-jodey-arrington","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950","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=44950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}