Matt Van Epps

Background and career

Matthew Robert Van Epps (born March 29, 1983) is an American politician and former Army officer serving as the U.S representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district since December 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in the 2025 special election. He previously served as the commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services from 2024 to 2025.

Education

College athletics

• Baseball source

Memberships and affiliations

• National Honor Society (honor society) source

Military service

Army; Army National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel (2005-2015; 2015-present (guard)) source

Citizenship

citizen by birth in the United States.

Religion

Protestant unspecified (self-reported in Pew survey of Congress)

Name history and family

Birth name: Matthew Robert Van Epps · Children: 1 · Marriages: 1 · Counts reflect publicly documented information; a missing count means not documented, not zero.

Marital status: Not listed

Previously held offices

Not listed.

Campaign fundraising

Raised Not listed in the 2024 cycle and $2,300,690 so far in the 2026 cycle (partial).

Top individual donors, 2024

No itemized individual donors found.

Top individual donors, 2026 (partial)

805 other donors gave a total of $956,088.

1 donor rows withheld pending verification.

PAC and party committee contributors over $5,000, 2026 (partial)

Gross receipts from FEC filings, not net of refunds. Industry mappings are the directory's own classification; see methodology.

Outside money

2024

Leadership PAC: C00929554. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

2026 (partial)

Independent expenditures by super PACs and other outside groups concerning the member. A committee name links to its page here, with its contributors and every member it spent for or against.

Leadership PAC: KEEPING FREEDOM ALIVE PAC. No donors met the reporting thresholds.

Joint fundraising committee TEAM VAN EPPS: $41,433 allocated to the member across 4 transfers.

Independent expenditures are reported to the FEC by the spending committee, not the member's campaign. A committee is marked single-candidate when 80% or more of its cycle independent-expenditure dollars concern one candidate. Donors are named only at $50,000 or more to a super PAC or joint fundraising committee. For leadership PACs, individuals are named at $50,000 or more; organizations and PACs at $5,000 or more. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Amounts are each donor's net total of itemized contributions across the cycle (primary, general, and runoff elections combined), after subtracting refunds, not single gifts. Receipts marked as received in error, returned, or refunded are excluded, and refunds to the donor are subtracted. Joint-fundraising shares are included: the member committee's itemized share of joint-fundraising proceeds (FEC transaction type 15J) counts toward the donor's total, while the joint fundraising committee's own transfers are not counted separately. Donors are named only when their net cycle total is $1,000 or more; smaller donors appear only in the aggregate count and total below each table. Where a returned receipt of $10,000 or more affects a total, it is noted below the table. Lists cover itemized individual gifts to the member's principal campaign committee only. Employer and occupation are self-reported. The 2026 cycle is still in progress.

Donor figures are net of refunds from the FEC individual-contribution bulk files (2024 and 2026 cycles, each itemization taken at its latest amended version before any exclusion), rebuilt and reconciled row by row against the previous release on 2026-10-02; see methodology for the method and the reconciliation counts.

Money and finances

Estimated net worth

Not listed in the disclosures reviewed.

Stock trades (last 12 months)

Trade data not retrieved for this member.

Influence in Congress

Ideology

DW-NOMINATE first dimension: 0.611 (conservative end of the scale), chamber rank #371 of the 119th Congress. Voteview

Interest group ratings

Bills enacted

0 sponsored bills enacted into law in the 119th Congress.

2026 election

District lean

Cook Partisan Voting Index (2025): R+11. Last election margin: 26.23 points (2025). Cook PVI

2026 election

No notable challenger declared.

Notable family

No notable relatives found under this methodology.

Voting record (2026)

314 roll-call votes in 2026 · missed 0.0% · party unity 99.4

Legislation

Sponsored 8 bills and cosponsored 95 bills in the 119th Congress.

Latest statements

• Rep. Van Epps Commemorates the 25th Anniversary of September 11th September 11, 2026
  Rep. Matt Van Epps released a video reflecting on the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, remembering the nearly 3,000 Americans lost and honoring first responders and servicemembers.
• Rep. Van Epps' Resolution on Fifth Anniversary of Afghanistan Withdrawal August 27, 2026
  Video press release on Rep. Van Epps' resolution marking the fifth anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
• Five Years After Abbey Gate, Republicans Say Biden's Failures Still Haven't Been Answered For August 26, 2026
  Statement marking five years since the Abbey Gate attack and calling for accountability for the Afghanistan withdrawal.
• Today, Rep. Van Epps Celebrates the Anniversary of NASA's Founding July 29, 2026
  Statement celebrating the anniversary of NASA's founding.
• Rep. Van Epps Announces Mobile Office Hours for July and August July 24, 2026
  Franklin, TN - Rep. Van Epps' district team will hold mobile office hours in communities across Tennessee's 7th Congressional District throughout July and August.

Latest official press releases and statements from the member's official site. This section requires periodic refresh; always check the source site for the newest items.

Social following

Office total: not retrieved · Personal total: 18K · Combined: 18K

Collected 2026-09-29. Office accounts are the member's official congressional accounts; personal accounts are their own campaign/personal accounts. Totals sum only accounts with a retrieved count and are never zero-filled. X counts are approximate (logged-out page variance). A missing account means none was verified, not that none exists.

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

• Republican Study Committee

Only documented caucus memberships are listed; memberships are never inferred.

Staff

Chief of staff

Samuel Nienow · (202) 225-2811

• Field Representative at Rep. Mark Green (2019) source
• District Director at Rep. Mark Green source
• Deputy Chief of Staff at Rep. Mark Green source
• Acting Chief of Staff at Rep. Mark Green source

Communications director

Krystina L. Skurk · (202) 225-2811

• Communications Director at Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) (07/07/25-01/30/26) source
• Communications Director at Former Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) (04/01/25-07/06/25) source
• Communications Adviser at House Homeland Security Committee (04/01/25-06/30/25) source

Staff data from House and Senate payroll filings; roles can change and filings can lag.

Offices

Washington, D.C. office

2446 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2811

District/state offices

Connections

Connections are derived from documented public records: family ties, shared schools, shared employers, fraternities and sororities, and staff career histories. Committee ties are excluded here and shown on committee pages.

Official links

Official website · Wikipedia