Budget and spending McClain, along with all other Senate and House Republicans, voted against the
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. In 2022, McClain voted against the
Inflation Reduction Act. McClain joined the majority of the House in voting to pass the
Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 to suspend the U.S. debt ceiling. In a 2025 interview with Politico, McClain amplified a rumor that Social Security payments were going out to people born 150 years ago. The source of this rumor was a coding-system quirk: The Social Security Administration uses a system written with the coding language
COBOL. In some instances when a person's birthdate is not known, COBOL uses the default date May 20th, 1875, which is the date of the "
Convention du Mètre” in Paris, when weights and measures were standardized.
Marriage In 2022, McClain was one of the 157 members of Congress who voted against the
Respect for Marriage Act.
Healthcare Alongside representatives
Elissa Slotkin and
John Moolenaar, McClain introduced the Patient Advocate Tracker Act to broaden access to information technology pertinent to
patient advocacy in the
Veterans Health Administration. President
Joe Biden signed the bill into law on September 16, 2022.
Veterans In August 2021, McClain sponsored a bill to
posthumously award the
Congressional Gold Medal to 13 service members who were killed by a
suicide bomber during the evacuation of citizens of the United States and Afghan allies at the
Hamid Karzai International Airport during the
withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan. President Biden signed the bill into law on December 16, 2021.
Support for Donald Trump and Republican House Leadership on March 9, 2026 At a 2022 Trump rally, McClain falsely claimed that Trump had "caught
Osama bin Laden". In 2025, McClain was critical of a sermon delivered by
Episcopal bishop
Mariann Budde during which Budde, speaking to an audience that included Donald Trump, said "In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now." McClain called the sermon "extremely out of line".
Immigration After U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident
Renée Good was killed by
ICE, McClain blamed Democrats for the killing, offering prayers in support of the ICE agents. ==Personal life==