The file

Mike Lawler

Republican · U.S. Representative, New York-17 · New York · Spectrum score +24

House · 2026 ballot ·

Mike Lawler is U.S. Representative, New York-17 in New York. Political positions and ideology score +24 (Center-right). Lawler is the majority.

College: Manhattan College, B.S.
Spouse: Doina Lawler (m. 2019)
Children: One
Résumé: U.S. Representative · New York-17 · 2023–
New York State Assembly · 2021–2022
Political consultant / county GOP operative · Hudson Valley · 2010s–2020

Net worth: $1.8M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $400K
2026 raised: $7.2M
Years in office: 3

Where Mike stands on the spectrum

Mike Lawler scores +24 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center-right), right of center on the economy and mixed on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +24 · Center-right · economic +27 · social +21 · authoritarian +13

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Lawler is the majority. The file is a member whose existence is a map: Hudson Valley, a conference that needs him to vote wrong, a DCCC that needs him gone, and a fundraising machine that is really the House majority’s insurance policy.

Finances

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

Net worth

$1.8M

+350% since taking office

House disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$400K

Now$1.8M

Hudson Valley, a Trump-district Republican who talks like a suburban. The NRCC treats him as a museum piece they need.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $7.2M
Cash on hand: $2.4M

Top industries

Finance
Real estate
Leadership PACs
Health

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Hudson Valley moderate. Funds, NRCC is the real treasury.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$50K–$250K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$15K–$75K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$50K–$250K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$15K–$75K

Sum of ranges $65K–$325K · midpoint $195K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

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Live wire

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Conflicts

A Republican in a Harris district — the donor list is the NRCC’s panic.
Abortion and guns to the left of the conference on purpose.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +27
Social: +21
Authoritarian: +13
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+38
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+18
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+22
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+28
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+24
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+30
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+2
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+26
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+32
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+24
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+34
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+14
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.22

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

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