The file

Liz Cheney

Republican · Former U.S. Representative, Wyoming · Wyoming · Spectrum score +41

Former office ·

Liz Cheney is Former U.S. Representative, Wyoming in Wyoming. Political positions and ideology score +41 (Right). Cheney is the exile.

College: Colorado College, B.A. 1988 · University of Chicago Law School, J.D. 1996
Spouse: Philip Perry (m. 1993)
Children: Five
Résumé: U.S. Representative · Wyoming at-large · 2017–2023
Deputy Assistant Secretary · Near Eastern Affairs, State · 2002–2004
Attorney · White & Case / AID · 1996–2002

Net worth: $8.0M
Salary: —
Before office: $4.0M
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 9

Where Liz stands on the spectrum

Liz Cheney scores +41 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +41 · Right · economic +37 · social +33 · authoritarian +17

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Cheney is the exile. The file is a war-cabinet last name who lost Wyoming for a hearing, then sold the hearing. You can think the committee was necessary and still notice the book tour is the current job.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$8.0M

+100% since taking office

Disclosure + book, 2024

Before office$4.0M

Now$8.0M

Vice-presidential household residue, a book, a 2022 martyrdom that became a media company. Wyoming is no longer the customer.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Publishing
Speeches
Never-Trump PACs

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

The hearing became a media company. Index funds and a book, not a trading desk.

Book / leftover, 2024 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Self
$500K–$2.0M
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Self
$150K–$600K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Self	$500K–$2.0M
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Self	$150K–$600K

Sum of ranges $650K–$2.6M · midpoint $1.6M

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

Jan. 6 committee as both civic act and brand origin.
Halliburton-adjacent last name that her new audience pretends not to remember.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +37
Social: +33
Authoritarian: +17
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+46
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+34
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+26
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+40
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+38
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+34
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+38
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+48
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+42
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+32
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+64
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+4
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.47

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

House NOMINATE
Jan. 6 committee
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.