A handful of members of the House have already spent most of their annual budget in the first half of this year, while the average House member has spent only 40% of their budget.
Rep. Alex Mooney (R-W.Va.) has spent 62% of his budget, the highest amount spent by any member. He is followed by Reps. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich), Danny Davis (D-Ill.), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), William Timmons (R-S.C.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Laurel Lee (R-Fla.), Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.) and Kat Cammack (R-Fla.), who have each already spent between 52-58% of their budget
Although the largest portion of a member's representational allowance is spent on personnel compensation, 81% on average, and the majority of members that rank in the top ten for spending have spent the most on this, the top two spenders have spent the majority of their allowance on printing and reproduction and franked mail.
Mooney has concentrated 33% of his spending on printing and reproduction and 18% has gone toward franked mail, while only 33% spent was on personnel compensation. Similarly, 27% of Thanedar's spending has gone toward personnel compensation, while a staggering 55% has gone toward printing and reproduction and 3.3% toward franked mail. The average representative has only spent 4.5% of their budget on printing and reproduction and 2.1% of it on franked mail.
