Six candidates. One Senate seat. See the names on Michigan's official candidate listing.
The Stated Record analysis: Toss-up
Updated September 3, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
Abdul El-SayedDemocratic
Mike RogersRepublican
Lydia ChristensenLibertarian
Tim LongU.S. Taxpayers
Douglas P. MarshGreen
Walter P. KristyNatural Law
Source: Michigan Department of State official candidate listing
Checked September 2, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
His campaign says he rebuilt Detroit's Health Department after the city's bankruptcy and then restructured Wayne County's health department. Abdul for U.S. Senate
Medicare for All: Medicare expanded to cover all necessary care for every American, without premiums, copays or deductibles. Abdul for U.S. Senate
Corporate and special-interest money out of elections, by overturning Citizens United and banning outside spending through 501(c)(4)s, super PACs and 527 groups. Abdul for U.S. Senate
Higher taxes on the very wealthy, including a tax on wealth over $1 billion, with a $50,000 cost-of-living exemption from federal tax. Abdul for U.S. Senate
Contributions from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Only line 11C has entries: 23 contributions totalling $71,845.23, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions. Lines 11B and 12 carry nothing. None of the 23 comes from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. The two hybrid PAC rows are contributions from named PACs such as MoveOn.org Political Action and No Dem Left Behind PAC, not donations routed through ActBlue. The three rows the FEC records no type for are committees named for other candidates, $1,100 in all. Donations individuals made through ActBlue are individual contributions and are not in the table; the committee reports $14,408,058.06 of individual contributions out of $14,514,335.93 in receipts for the same period. The rows sum to 71,845.23 dollars.
Manufacturing jobs brought back home, and lower prices for gas, groceries and prescription drugs. Rogers for Senate
Social Security and Medicare protected for seniors. Rogers for Senate
529 savings plans opened to first-time home down payments, and tax-free residential zones for new construction. Rogers for Senate
Insurers forced to publish denial rates, approval times and appeal outcomes, and fined for posting no real prices. Rogers for Senate
The tax cuts he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts made permanent, and the state and federal gas tax suspended. Rogers for Senate, Rogers for Senate
What the official record shows
Sponsored Senate Bill 599 of 1999, which created the Michigan education savings program and was approved by the governor as Public Act 161 of 2000. Michigan Legislature
Voted Yea on the House budget resolution for fiscal 2012, whose Medicare section kept current benefits for those in and near retirement and assumed a premium support payment for future beneficiaries. It passed the House; the Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up. Congress.gov, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Contributions and transfers from political committees in the 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, read from filing lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees), and grouped by the FEC's recorded type of the contributing committee. Line 11B: one party contribution of $62,000. Line 11C: $787,227.09 across 197 contributions, after excluding 10 memo entries. Line 12: $3,139,681.67 transferred from eight joint fundraising committees; 7,086 memo entries itemizing the individual donations inside those transfers are excluded because the transfers already count them. Each line equals the FEC summary figure for it, and the table totals $3,988,908.76. Donations individuals made through WinRed are individual contributions and are not in the table. The rows sum to 3,988,908.76 dollars.
The Libertarian Party nominee, printed third on the state's listing and filed by convention on June 29, 2026. Michigan Department of State
Her campaign says her family comes from Ironwood in the Upper Peninsula, that she grew up in foster care, and that she founded her own technology company. Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate
What they say they want to do
Medicaid for All as opt-in coverage for citizens and legal residents, with premiums capped by income. Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate
An end to warrantless surveillance of Americans, the license plate reader dragnet and the remaining Patriot Act powers, and a Bill of Digital Rights making personal data its owner's property. Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate
No public office held by her was found, so there is no official record of votes, sponsorships or official acts to list. The desk searched the state's candidate listing, her FEC filings and her campaign biography, which describes her work in technology and names no office. Michigan Department of State, Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate, Federal Election Commission
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Her committee has filed no financial report, so there are no filing lines to read. It has instead filed Form 99 statements, most recently on July 2, 2026, saying it has not raised or spent more than $5,000 in the cycle. Federal Election Commission
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website; the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page read "No candidates have been added yet" on September 23, 2026; and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings. Federal Election Commission, U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan
What the official record shows
No public office held by him was found in the sources searched: the state's candidate listing, his FEC registration and his party's candidates page. News listings describe an earlier run for the Wayne County Commission, which the desk did not confirm from the county's own election record. Michigan Department of State, Federal Election Commission
Campaign money from other committees, by type
His committee has filed only a Statement of Organization, on July 27, 2026, and no financial report, so there are no filing lines to read. Federal Election Commission
His committee has filed no financial report in either cycle, so there are no filing lines to read. In June 2024 it told the FEC it had not raised or spent more than $5,000; it has filed no such statement for 2026. Federal Election Commission, Federal Election Commission
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no committee that would list a website; the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site, nlpmi.org, answered with a challenge page (HTTP 403) and was not read; and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll. Federal Election Commission, Natural Law Party of Michigan
The FEC records no campaign committee and no filing for him, so there is no money to report and no filing lines to read. Federal Election Commission
Race outlook
How election analysts rate this race
Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities.
The Stated Record analysisToss-up
Based on 2 verified rating sources. 1 stale or missing rating was excluded.
DemocraticToss-upRepublican
Cook Political ReportToss Up
Cook Political Report assessed this Aug 20, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Inside ElectionsToss-up · stale
Inside Elections assessed this Jul 24, 2025; checked Sep 3, 2026. Stale ratings are shown for transparency but excluded from our synthesis.
Sabato's Crystal BallToss-up
Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Aug 26, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Our synthesis uses the median-style ordinal rule described in Methodology. It is our analysis, not another independent rating.
What to know
The race in context
The candidate field remains provisional because the state source labels its listing unofficial; campaign context stays unpublished until the field is final.
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Candidate records
The field, without the campaign gloss
Current public roles come from government sources. Campaign-finance IDs come from the FEC.
Holds no public office. He was director and health officer of Wayne County's Department of Health, Human and Veterans Services, the title under which he testified to a Senate committee in July 2024.
X: not foundNo campaign website was found to link an account. The FEC records no campaign committee for him.
Profile links show what is public now, not a complete archive. Each link was confirmed through the campaign site unless a note says otherwise. Individual social posts enter the evidence record only with a post URL, date, context, and review note.
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Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
He says he will fight to expand Medicare to cover all necessary care, including vision, dental and hearing, for every American without premiums, copays or deductibles, and that he wrote a book on Medicare for All. Until then he opposes privatizing Medicare or cutting Medicaid and the ACA.
His health plan would fine hospitals and insurers that do not post real prices, expand access to TrumpRx and speed approval of lower-cost generic drugs, and force insurers to publicly report denial rates, approval times and appeal outcomes, with penalties for excessive denials.
She proposes Medicaid for All as opt-in coverage for citizens and legal residents, covering all medically necessary care, with premiums capped by income and free below a set threshold, funded by drug price negotiation, administrative savings, spending cuts and closing corporate and wealth tax loopholes.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.
He supports a federal tax exemption on the first $50,000 of income for cost of living, taxing capital gains over $1 million as ordinary income, a higher marginal rate on earnings over $1 million and a tax on wealth over $1 billion.
His campaign says he will lower the cost of gas, groceries and prescription drugs and bring manufacturing jobs back home. He calls for suspending the state and federal gas tax, and he backs what he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts, including no tax on tips and overtime.
She proposes no federal income tax on earnings under $150,000 a year, as a step toward eliminating the federal income tax, and supports removing tariffs, which she calls a regressive tax.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.
He says he will advocate for a Universal Basic Income of $1,000 a month for every citizen over 18, and $1,500 a month for descendants of chattel slavery.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.
He calls for a building boom through federal investment and looser local rules, a ban on large corporations that speculate on housing owning homes at all, and a federal ban on algorithmic rent-setting software.
His housing plan would let 529 savings plans pay first-time home down payments, give renters credit for on-time rent, roll back housing regulation, and create residential zones where new construction is tax-free.
Her housing plan starts with a rapid rehousing program run through the Department of Health and Human Services, which she would fund by capping the Pentagon budget.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.
He says private equity companies should not own residential property, rents should be tied to an area's prevailing wages, and short-term rentals must be regulated.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.
His campaign lists protecting seniors' Social Security and Medicare among what putting Michigan first means. He opposes taxing seniors' Social Security, and credits what he calls the Working Families Tax Cuts with cutting those taxes.
She promises to fight any cut to Social Security benefits. Going forward, workers could stop paying their own share; employers would keep paying theirs, on all wages with no cap.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.
No position on Social Security or Medicare was found on his campaign site, which sets out five priorities: affordability, universal health care, housing, a ceasefire and clean water.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.
He supports shutting down Line 5, and says that in the meantime it should be made safer without disturbing the line or sensitive environmental and tribal sites.
No position on the Great Lakes or Line 5 was found on his campaign site: the home page, his biography, the housing and health plans, and all 202 news items back to March 2025.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.
He opposes the war in Iran and demands an immediate end to hostilities, supports an immediate arms embargo on Israel, and opposes direct military funding to foreign militaries including Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
He backs the U.S. airstrikes on Iran. After the strikes of February 28, 2026 he said Iran "is an imminent threat to our country and must not have a nuclear weapon." In June 2025 he said the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites made America and the world safer.
She says she will vote for binding legislation to end the war in Iran, oppose further war funding without authorization, and vote against continued military aid to Israel until compliance with human rights law is independently verified.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. His FEC committee registration lists no website, the U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan's candidates page lists no candidates, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings.
He says the United States should immediately cease hostilities against Iran and use its leverage for permanent ceasefires in Gaza, Ukraine and elsewhere.
No campaign website, platform or public statement by him was found. The FEC records no campaign committee for him, the Natural Law Party of Michigan's site refused an automated reader and was not read, and a web search for his name with the party and the office returned only election listings and a poll.
The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record, and a card never says why someone did something.
Senate Bill 599 of 1999 lists one sponsor, Mike Rogers of the 26th Senate district, and describes itself as establishing the Michigan education savings program. It passed the Senate 36 to 0 on May 3, 2000 and the House 105 to 0 on May 18; the Senate concurred in the House substitute 37 to 0 on May 31, and the governor approved it on June 16, 2000 as Public Act 161 of 2000.
Limit: The legislature's record ties the bill to two House bills, HB 5653 by Gary Woronchak and HB 5654 by Scott Shackleton. Both became law the same day, as Public Acts 162 and 163 of 2000, and provide the state income tax deductions for contributions; SB 599 is the act that establishes the program. The Senate Fiscal Agency's analysis says so directly: "Senate Bill 599 created the Michigan Education Savings Program Act". The claim that he wrote the legislation that created it matches the sponsor line on that act. Unanimous votes in both chambers mean the bill was not contested.
His campaign says that in Congress he worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans.
“In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare.”
He sponsored three bills on it. The SAVE Act of 2001 (H.R. 475) would have kept distributions from state tuition plans used for college out of taxable income; H.R. 5054 in 2002 would have made that exclusion permanent; the SAVE Act of 2005 (H.R. 2994) would have done the same and added a deduction for contributions. He also cosponsored two: the College Savings Protection Act (H.R. 248, 2001), which would have excluded the same distributions from gross income, and the Education Savings Act of 2003 (H.R. 3318), which would have excluded from an employee's income an employer's contributions to education savings. None advanced past committee. The exclusion itself became law in section 402(b) of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, which he voted for on passage on May 16, 2001 (Roll Call 118) and on the conference report on May 26 (Roll Call 149). That act set it to expire after 2010; section 1304 of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 made it permanent, and he voted Aye on that act's passage on July 28, 2006 (Roll Call 422).
Limit: His own bills stalled, but one became law inside a larger act: section 1304 of the Pension Protection Act, which he voted for, made the tax break permanent in nearly the words of his 2002 bill (H.R. 5054). "Worked to" is what the record shows: sponsorship in three Congresses, cosponsorship in two and votes for both laws. The deduction for contributions that two of his bills proposed never became federal law. The second half of the same sentence, on health care for low-income families, has its own card.
His campaign says that in Congress he passed legislation to help low-income families receive health care.
“In Congress, Mike worked to eliminate federal taxes on education savings plans and passed legislation to help low-income families receive healthcare.”
In 2005 he sponsored the Medicaid Health Opportunity Account Act (H.R. 3757). It would have set up a Medicaid demonstration letting states offer alternative benefits, including health opportunity accounts, to groups of enrollees. His bill stayed in subcommittee, but section 6082 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-171) enacted the same demonstration in nearly the same words. He voted Yea on the act's conference report on December 19, 2005 (Roll Call 670) and on the rule that cleared it on February 1, 2006 (Roll Call 4). It became law on February 8, 2006.
Limit: His own bill did not pass; its program became law inside a larger act. The same act also gave states the option of new Medicaid premiums and cost sharing. Whether any state used the program was not checked. The test is a federal (CMS) approval of a state demonstration under section 1938 of the Social Security Act, which this act added.
His campaign says he authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land during the burial of a service member a federal crime.
“Mike also authored the Respect for Fallen Heroes Act, which made protesting on federal land while families were burying service members who made the ultimate sacrifice a federal crime.”
He sponsored H.R. 5037, the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act. The House passed it 408 to 3 on May 9, 2006 (Roll Call 129), with his Yea, and it became Public Law 109-228 on May 29, 2006. It bars unapproved demonstrations on the grounds of cemeteries run by the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery, and demonstrations within set distances of them in the hour before and after a funeral, and makes a violation punishable by a fine, up to a year in prison, or both.
Limit: He wrote it and it is law. The campaign's summary is broader than the statute: the law covers national cemeteries and Arlington, not federal land in general, and the penalty is at most a year in prison.
The committee's report of May 3, 2011 on the intelligence authorization bill for fiscal 2011 records him as chairman: its record votes list "Mr. Rogers (Chairman)", and the Congressional Budget Office letter it prints is addressed to him as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He sponsored the committee's yearly authorization bill for each of fiscal 2011 to 2015, and all five years' authorizations became law. Three were his own bills: fiscal 2011 (Public Law 112-18), 2012 (Public Law 112-87) and 2015 (Public Law 113-293). For 2013 and 2014 the Senate's bills became law instead (Public Laws 112-277 and 113-126); he had sponsored the House versions, H.R. 5743 and H.R. 3381, and he moved the Senate bills through the House. H.R. 5743 passed the House 386 to 28 with his Aye. The official Congressional Directory for the 113th Congress, in its February 2014 edition, lists his committees as "chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence".
Limit: The committee's report and the Congressional Directory settle that he held the office in both Congresses from 2011 to 2015. Whether it was his greatest mark is the campaign's judgment, and the home page's line that the committee under him hunted down terrorists is not something a committee record can confirm.
On June 6, 2013 he sponsored the Cyber Economic Espionage Accountability Act (H.R. 2281). It would have stated that cyber economic espionage should be a priority in all economic and diplomatic talks with the People's Republic of China, and directed the President to publish a list of foreign officials responsible for cyber espionage of Americans' intellectual property, bar them from visas and freeze their assets in the United States. It was referred to subcommittee and went no further. Earlier he was an original cosponsor of the Stop Counterfeiting in Manufactured Goods Act (H.R. 32), sponsored by fellow Michigan Republican Joe Knollenberg, which became Public Law 109-181 on March 16, 2006. Its findings state that counterfeit automobile parts, including brake pads, cost the auto industry billions of dollars in lost sales each year. As chairman, he filed his committee's April 2012 report on his cyber bill (H. Rept. 112-445). It says "China, in particular, is engaged in an extensive, day-in, day-out effort to pillage American corporate and government information." On October 8, 2012 he and the committee's top Democrat released its report on Huawei and ZTE. The committee's release calls China "a country known to aggressively steal valuable trade secrets and other sensitive data from American companies."
Limit: The 2013 bill is aimed squarely at the claim and did not advance. The 2006 law is about counterfeit goods in general and does not name China, but its findings name the auto industry, which is the part of the claim about Michigan. He also sponsored bills in 2004 and 2005 (H.R. 4986 and H.R. 2414) directing the Treasury to analyze China's exchange rate policies; they concern trade rather than intellectual property, and neither left subcommittee. The 2012 report names China but not the auto industry, and the bill it covers does not mention intellectual property. His committee's own page for its October 2012 report on Huawei and ZTE is still up, but its link to the report is dead. A Stanford library copy was read and is not cited. His sponsored bills and the 1,462 bills he cosponsored were searched by title.
His campaign lists protecting seniors' Social Security and Medicare among what putting America and Michigan first means.
“That means bringing manufacturing jobs back home, lowering the cost of gas, groceries, & prescription drugs, protecting seniors’ social security & medicare, and setting our kids up for success by prioritizing education not indoctrination.”
In 2001 he sponsored the Social Security Lock-box Act (H.R. 373), which would have created a budget point of order against spending the Social Security trust fund's surplus, and the Social Security Protection Act (H.R. 2865), which would have required cuts in non-defense discretionary spending equal to any 2001 deficit; neither left committee. He voted Yea when the House passed another member's lock-box bill, H.R. 2, 407 to 2 on February 13, 2001 (Roll Call 13); it did not become law. He cosponsored bills in 2001 and 2003 (H.R. 122 and H.R. 434) to repeal the second, 85 per cent tier of income tax on Social Security benefits; neither left committee. He voted for two laws that changed the programs. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (Public Law 108-173) added the Part D prescription drug benefit; he voted Aye on passage on June 27, 2003 (Roll Call 332) and Yea on the conference report on November 22, 2003 (Roll Call 669). The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-203), whose first title is headed "Protection of Beneficiaries", had his Aye on passage on April 2, 2003 (Roll Call 102) and his Yea on the final version on February 11, 2004 (Roll Call 23). On April 15, 2011 he voted Yea on the House budget resolution for fiscal 2012 (Roll Call 277). Its Medicare section kept current benefits for those in and near retirement "without changes", and assumed that for future generations Medicare would be reformed to provide a premium support payment and a choice of guaranteed coverage options. The Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up (Record Vote 77, May 25, 2011). He voted Yea on the House's next three budget resolutions, for fiscal 2013, 2014 and 2015 (Roll Call 151 of 2012, 88 of 2013 and 177 of 2014), each of which assumed the same: current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations. A budget resolution does not become law. He voted No on the Affordable Care Act, which also changed Medicare, on March 21, 2010 (Roll Call 165), and Aye on repealing it on January 19, 2011 (Roll Call 14).
Limit: The claim is a promise about what he would do as a senator, and the record is a House record that ended in 2015. It runs both ways. The Social Security bills he sponsored, and the repeal of the tax on benefits he cosponsored, never became law, but he voted for two laws that changed the programs, one of which added Medicare's prescription drug benefit. He also voted for four House budget resolutions that kept current benefits for those in or near retirement and assumed premium support for future beneficiaries; a budget resolution is a plan, not a law. Whether premium support for future beneficiaries counts as protecting Medicare is a policy judgment this site does not make; the record shows what he sponsored and a selection of his votes, not every vote he cast on these programs. His cosponsored bills were searched by title; the many Medicare provider-payment bills among them are not listed here.
Through July 15, 2026 his committee's filings carry 23 contributions from political committees, $71,845.23 in all, and none is from a committee the FEC records as a corporation's PAC. They come from hybrid PACs ($27,825 from six), leadership PACs ($17,000 from four), labor union PACs ($15,500 from four: the UAW's, National Nurses United's, the Communications Workers' and the Office and Professional Employees'), and the rest from other PACs and from committees named for four other candidates. He reported no party money and no joint fundraising transfers. Contributions from individuals were $14,408,058.06 of $14,514,335.93 in receipts.
Limit: A corporation cannot give to a federal campaign directly, so corporate money reaches a candidate through a corporation's PAC, and that is what the filings were read for. They show none. The home page's wording that the campaign is "100% funded by people like you" is not literal: about half of one per cent of receipts came from PACs, including labor unions, and the card does not treat that as corporate money. He resigned as Detroit's health director in February 2017 to run for governor of Michigan, and that campaign's state filings, which "never" also covers, were not read; the claim is tested here against his federal committee only. The filings run to July 15, 2026, and the October quarterly report will extend them.
He says he erased medical debt for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County. His biography puts it as a program he spearheaded that will cancel up to $700 million in medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders over two years.
“I erased it for upwards of 300,000 Michiganders in Wayne County.”
In written testimony to the Senate health committee on July 11, 2024, as the county's director and health officer, he described the program as announced in March 2024 with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, funded to relieve debts totalling up to $700 million for residents earning under 400 per cent of the federal poverty level or owing more than 5 per cent of their income. The testimony gives that as a ceiling and gives no count of residents relieved.
The claim turns on how many people have actually had debt erased. The county's program page blocks this desk's reader. A researcher who opened it in a normal browser on September 23, 2026 saw its dashboard report 102,246 people helped and $95,790,771.80 in debt relieved at face value, with $709,202.89 in county dollars used. The dashboard shows no as-of date. Bridge Michigan reported the county's figure on June 25, 2026 as $57.4 million for 83,291 residents. This card carries no label until the owner decides.
Limit: Face value is what the debt was worth, not what it cost to buy. The program started in 2024, so not all of today's totals fall in his time as director. What would settle it is a dated county report, or the Undue Medical Debt contract reports filed with the county commission. If the county's figure is as reported, the past-tense claim of 300,000 people would not be borne out, while the biography's forward-looking wording, a program that will cancel up to $700 million, matches the ceiling in his testimony. Two quite different claims are being made about the same program.
Her committee has filed no financial report with the FEC. It has instead filed Form 99 statements, most recently on July 2, 2026, saying it has not raised or spent more than $5,000 in the cycle and so is not required to file periodic reports.
A campaign below the $5,000 threshold files no itemized receipts, so there is no filing line to read for PAC or corporate money. Her committee's statements are consistent with a small campaign but say nothing about where its money came from, and every label in the list would misstate why this claim is not judged.
Limit: Nothing here says the claim is wrong, and nothing here says it is right. If the committee crosses $5,000 and files a report, lines 11B, 11C and 12 of that report will answer it.
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Campaign finance
FEC snapshot through Jul 15, 2026
Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.
Rogers voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 34, whose Medicare section assumed a premium support payment for future beneficiaries. On May 25 the Senate voted 40 to 57 against taking it up.
As Wayne County's director and health officer, he described the county's medical debt program, announced in March 2024, as funded to relieve up to $700 million in debt.
The latest period both El-Sayed's and Rogers's committees have reported to the FEC ends. None of the other four candidates has filed a financial report.
The Michigan Department of State's listing, headed "Official Candidate Listing" when read on September 23, prints six U.S. Senate candidates, with a footer dated Friday, September 4. The field on this page is built from it.
Michigan Department of State. The state's candidate listing, read 2026-09-23. It prints six U.S. Senate candidates in this order, each with party, filing date and filing method, and its footer reads "721 Candidates as of Fri Sep 04 08:48:42 EDT"; the footer prints no year, and September 4 fell on a Friday in 2026. On 2026-09-23 its header read "Official Candidate Listing"; this project recorded it on 2026-09-02 as an unofficial listing current as of August 31, 2026. Captured file SHA-256 e3551674a96aebc1d295336d857a9b626ab38177823ed5357214a40b038b1938.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-23: 25 candidate records for the seat, used to match each printed candidate to an FEC candidate ID and principal committee by name and party.
Abdul for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Carries the line "Paid for by Abdul for U.S. Senate", and the domain matches the website his principal committee filed with the FEC. Links his X, Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, YouTube and TikTok accounts.
Abdul for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Used for his biography and for the campaign's account of his work in Detroit and Wayne County.
Abdul for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Covers campaign finance, elections, civil rights, immigration, the environment, water and foreign policy.
Abdul for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Covers jobs, trade, taxes, technology, housing, education and farming.
Abdul for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Covers health care, veterans, drug prices and public health.
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The committee's hearing page for July 11, 2024. It lists him as a witness under the title "Director & Health Officer, Wayne County Dept of Health, Human & Veterans Services".
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. His written testimony as filed with the committee, dated July 11, 2024. It describes the Wayne County program as announced in March 2024 with Undue Medical Debt to relieve debts "totaling up to $700 million" and gives no count of residents relieved. A PDF, read by text extraction; captured file SHA-256 64de2b08752505971b3e1001702abe57c8bc705d1a68f6d621da422c38d8cda3.
Wayne County, Michigan. The county's own page for the program. It refused this desk's reader with HTTP 403 on 2026-09-23 and again on 2026-09-24; the desk does not work around a refusal. An outside researcher read it and its results dashboard in a normal browser on 2026-09-23.
Bridge Michigan. Reporting published June 25, 2026. It states that the county says the program has paid off the equivalent of $57.4 million in medical debt for 83,291 residents more than two years in. Used only as a report of the county's figure, which the county's own page would confirm or correct.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee only, covering July 1 to July 15, 2026. The original was received July 23, 2026 (file 2001725); this amendment, received August 11, 2026 (file 2005721), is the report OpenFEC marks most recent, and carries the same totals.
Federal Election Commission. Read on 2026-09-23 through tools/fec-money/money.py, which reads lines 11B, 11C and 12 only. Line 11C holds 23 rows totalling $71,845.23, equal to the FEC summary's other-committee contributions; lines 11B and 12 hold none. The committee's cycle totals through July 15, 2026, read from the same API, report $14,514,335.93 in receipts, of which $14,408,058.06 are contributions from individuals.
Rogers for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Carries the line "Paid for by Rogers for Senate", and the domain matches the website his principal committee filed with the FEC. Links his X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts.
Rogers for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. The campaign's biography, and the source of every claim about his record tested on this desk.
Rogers for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. An index of press releases, read for positions. Its items about his opponent are out of scope for this site and are not used. All 202 items back to March 2025 were read through the site's own feed on 2026-09-23.
Congress.gov. Resolved from Congress.gov's by-state member listing for Michigan and name-checked: Rogers, Mike J., Republican, seven House terms for Michigan's 8th district from 2001 to 2015. A different member, Mike Rogers of Alabama, has his own record and is not this one. The official Biographical Directory, bioguide.congress.gov, returned a Cloudflare challenge page (HTTP 403) and was not read; the official Congressional Directory on GovInfo (cdir-2014-mi) was read instead.
Michigan Legislature. The legislature's bill record. It lists one sponsor, "Mike Rogers (District 26)", describes the bill as establishing the Michigan education savings program, and records its passage and approval by the governor on June 16, 2000 as Public Act 161 of 2000. It is tie-barred to House Bills 5653 and 5654 of 2000, the income tax deduction bills that became Public Acts 162 and 163 of 2000.
Congress.gov. Sponsorship and the summary: a limited deduction for payments to a qualified state tuition program, and no income tax on distributions used for qualified higher education expenses. Referred to committee; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsorship and the summary: it would have exempted the 2001 act's tuition-program changes from that act's sunset, making them permanent. Referred to committee; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsorship and the summary: it would have made the 2001 act's tuition-program changes permanent and allowed a deduction of up to $5,000 ($10,000 joint) for payments into a plan. Referred to committee; no further action.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted text. Section 402(b), "Exclusion From Gross Income of Education Distributions From Qualified Tuition Programs", is the provision the card relies on.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of May 16, 2001, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Votes from 2001 carry no member ID, so he is read as "Rogers (MI)", distinct from "Rogers (KY)" in the same list.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of May 26, 2001, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by name and state, as "Rogers (MI)".
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted text. Section 1304 provides that the 2001 act's sunset "shall not apply to section 402 of such Act (relating to modifications to qualified tuition programs)".
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted text: a new 38 U.S.C. 2413 on demonstrations at cemeteries under the National Cemetery Administration and at Arlington National Cemetery, and a penalty of a fine, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Committee report of May 3, 2011, submitted by "Mr. Rogers of Michigan, from the Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select)". Its record votes list "Mr. Rogers (Chairman)", and the Congressional Budget Office letter it prints is addressed to "Hon. Mike Rogers, Chairman, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence".
Congress.gov. Adopted by the House 235 to 193 on April 15, 2011 (Roll Call 277); the Senate rejected a motion to proceed to it 40 to 57 on May 25, 2011 (Record Vote 77). Section 501 of the engrossed text, read at GovInfo (BILLS-112hconres34eh), states the resolution's Medicare assumptions.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee only, covering July 1 to July 15, 2026, received July 23, 2026 (file 2001576), the report OpenFEC marks most recent. Two other committees carry his name, both nominee funds designated as authorized, and are not in this snapshot.
Federal Election Commission. Read on 2026-09-23 through tools/fec-money/money.py, lines 11B, 11C and 12 only. Line 11B: one row, $62,000. Line 11C: 207 rows of which 10 are memo entries; the 197 counted total $787,227.09. Line 12: 7,124 rows of which 7,086 are memo entries itemizing money already counted; the 38 counted total $3,139,681.67. Each line equals the FEC summary figure for it.
Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. The site is built in the browser: a plain request returns an empty page shell, and the text is served from the site's own script file (https://www.lydialynnchristensen.com/main.js), which is what the quote checks read. The domain matches the website her committee filed with the FEC. It links an X account and a Facebook page.
Lydia Christensen for U.S. Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. Fifty-two issue entries in eleven categories, rendered in the browser from the site's own data file (https://www.lydialynnchristensen.com/get_issues.php), which is what the quote checks read. The page says its policies are living documents that she updates.
Federal Election Commission. A Form 99 statement (file 1987784) that the committee "has not raised or spent more than $5,000" in the cycle as of that date and is therefore not filing periodic reports. The committee has filed six such statements since July 2025 and no financial report.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee for candidate S6MI00566 ("LONG, TIMOTHY E", U.S. Taxpayers Party). Its only filing is a Statement of Organization received July 27, 2026, which lists no website. It has filed no financial report.
U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan. The party's candidates page, read in a browser on 2026-09-23 because the site is built in the browser. It read "No candidates have been added yet."
Committee to Elect Douglas P. Marsh. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. A one-page site whose domain matches the website his committee filed with the FEC. It sets out five priorities and links no social account.
Federal Election Commission. Principal committee for candidate S4MI00512, active in the 2024 and 2026 cycles. Its filings are two Statements of Organization (April 12, 2024 and July 1, 2026), a Form 99 statement of June 6, 2024, and a request for additional information from the FEC. It has filed no financial report.
Federal Election Commission. A Form 99 statement (file 1787585) answering an FEC notice, declaring that the committee had not raised or spent more than $5,000. It concerns the 2024 cycle.
Federal Election Commission. The FEC's candidate record, party Natural Law Party. OpenFEC lists no committee of any designation for this candidate and no filing under his candidate ID.
Michigan Legislature. The legislature's bill record. Sponsor Gary Woronchak; described as providing income tax deductions and addbacks for contributions to and withdrawals from the Michigan education savings program; tie-barred to SB 599; approved by the governor June 16, 2000 and assigned Public Act 162 of 2000.
Michigan Legislature. The legislature's bill record. Sponsor Scott Shackleton; described as providing deductions for tax deferred education savings account contributions; tie-barred to SB 599; approved by the governor June 16, 2000 and assigned Public Act 163 of 2000.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Spencer Bachus; he is listed as a cosponsor from February 13, 2001. Summary: exclusion from gross income of distributions from state tuition programs used for qualified higher education expenses. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Jon Porter; he is listed as an original cosponsor. Summary: exclude from an employee's gross income an employer's contributions to an education savings entity under an educational assistance program. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. The official directory's entry for the Eighth District, Mike Rogers, Republican, of Howell. It gives "military service: U.S. Army, Captain", "professional: FBI Special Agent, assigned to public corruption and organized crime units", "committees: chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence", and says he was elected to the 107th Congress on November 7, 2000 and reelected to each succeeding Congress. Read as the GovInfo granule CDIR-2014-02-18-MI.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Joe Knollenberg [R-MI-9]; he is listed as an original cosponsor. Became Public Law 109-181 on March 16, 2006. Found by searching the 1,462 bills Congress.gov lists as his cosponsorships.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted text. Its findings state that "counterfeit automobile parts, including brake pads, cost the auto industry alone billions of dollars in lost sales each year". The act does not name China.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by him. Summary: directs the Treasury to analyze the People's Republic of China's exchange rate policies. Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by him. Summary: directs the Treasury to analyze the People's Republic of China's exchange rate policies. Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Wally Herger, not by him. Passed the House 407 to 2 on February 13, 2001 (Roll Call 13); in the Senate it went no further than committee referral and discharge.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of February 13, 2001, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by name and state, as "Rogers (MI)", distinct from "Rogers (KY)".
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson; he is listed as a cosponsor from February 6, 2001. Summary: repeal the 85 percent (second tier) taxation of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by Rep. Sam Johnson; he is listed as a cosponsor from February 11, 2003. The 108th-Congress version of H.R. 122. Referred to the Ways and Means Committee; no further action.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of June 27, 2003 (216 to 215), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of November 22, 2003 (220 to 215), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted text. Its first title is headed "Protection of Beneficiaries" and begins with a subtitle on representative payees.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of April 2, 2003 (396 to 28), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of February 11, 2004 (402 to 19), read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
Congress.gov. Adopted by the House 228 to 191 on March 29, 2012 (Roll Call 151). Its Medicare section, read in the engrossed text at GovInfo (BILLS-112hconres112eh), assumes current benefits preserved for those in and near retirement and premium support for future generations.
Congress.gov. Adopted by the House 221 to 207 on March 21, 2013 (Roll Call 88). Its Medicare section, read in the engrossed text at GovInfo (BILLS-113hconres25eh), assumes current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations.
Congress.gov. Adopted by the House 219 to 205 on April 10, 2014 (Roll Call 177). Its Medicare section, read in the engrossed text at GovInfo (BILLS-113hconres96eh), assumes current benefits preserved for those in or near retirement and premium support for future generations.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by him; passed the House 248 to 168 on April 26, 2012 (Roll Call 192); received in the Senate and referred to the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Rogers for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. His op-ed of April 15, 2026, first printed in The Midwesterner and posted on his campaign site.
Rogers for Senate. Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. His op-ed of July 2, 2026, first printed in The Midwesterner. Only his own position is used; its lines about his opponents are out of scope.
Congress.gov. The Senate's bill. Mr. Rogers (MI) moved its passage in the House, which passed it 373 to 29 on December 31, 2012 (Roll Call 652). Public Law 112-277, January 14, 2013.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by him; reported by his committee and placed on the Union Calendar on November 25, 2013. The Senate's bill for the same year became law instead.
Congress.gov. The Senate's bill. Mr. Rogers (MI) moved its passage in the House, which passed it by voice vote on June 24, 2014. Public Law 113-126, July 7, 2014.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. His committee's report of April 17, 2012 on his bill H.R. 3523, submitted by "Mr. Rogers of Michigan". It says the attacks are "often aimed at stealing the corporate research and development information" of American companies, and names China.
U.S. Government Publishing Office. Enacted text. Section 6082, "Health Opportunity Accounts", sets up the Medicaid demonstration. Section 6041 gives states an option for alternative Medicaid premiums and cost sharing. Became law February 8, 2006.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of December 19, 2005, 212 to 206, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of February 1, 2006, 216 to 214, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572. Under the rule, adopting it counted as the House agreeing to the Senate's final changes to S. 1932 (Congress.gov actions).
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of March 21, 2010, on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of January 19, 2011, on H.R. 2, the House bill to repeal the 2010 health care law, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML by member ID R000572.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The committee's release of October 8, 2012, still on its site. It names Chairman Mike Rogers and Ranking Member Dutch Ruppersberger as releasing the Huawei and ZTE report. The report's own PDF link on the committee site returns 404.
Wayne County, Michigan. The results dashboard linked from the county's program page. Read by an outside researcher in a normal browser on 2026-09-23; the figures are that researcher's transcription of the three total cards, not a saved copy of the page. No data-as-of date was shown.
U.S. House of Representatives, History, Art & Archives. The House's biography of Michigan's Mike Rogers, born 1963 (not the Alabama member of the same name). It gives "United States Army, 1985-1989; Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1989-1994".
Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency. The Senate Fiscal Agency's analysis, completed January 23, 2001, after the bills became Public Acts 161, 162 and 163 of 2000. It lists Senator Mike Rogers as sponsor of S.B. 599 and says the two House bills amended the Income Tax Act.
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November 3, 2026
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Cook Political Report: Toss Up; dated August 20, 2026
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Official candidate listing dated September 4, 2026; reviewed September 26, 2026.
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Michigan Department of State official candidate listinghttps://mi-boe.entellitrak.com/etk-mi-boe-prod/page.request.do?electionType=GEN&electionYear=2026&page=page.miboePublicReport
Cook Political Report Senate ratingshttps://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings