Dan Sullivan
Conservative
Republican
Senator
Alaska
Current Position: Senator from Alaska
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For DOGE spending cuts and federal workforce reductions under the second Trump administration
- For defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; voted for the Rescissions Act of 2025 which eliminated CPB funding and cut foreign aid
- For Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (budget and tax bill); voted in favor in July 2025
- For Trump's tariffs on Canada; voted in support in April 2025
Health Care
- Against the Affordable Care Act; has voted to repeal it
Environment
- Against climate science consensus; rejects that there is a scientific consensus on climate change and has argued 'the verdict is still out on the human contribution to climate change'
- For opening federal lands to resource development; lobbied the Trump administration to open Tongass National Forest to logging and other development, and attempted to fast-track the Ambler Access Project through a defense bill amendment
- For an all-of-the-above energy strategy; opposed Biden administration energy policies, which he described as a 'war on energy'
Civil Rights
- Against abortion rights; in 2014 stated abortion should be illegal except to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest; supported defunding Planned Parenthood (2017); supported the Dobbs v. Jackson decision overturning Roe v. Wade (2022); co-signed a 2025 letter urging HHS and FDA to reevaluate generic mifepristone approval and reinstate in-person prescription requirements for medication abortion
- Against same-sex marriage in 2014, supporting a constitutional amendment to ban it; voted for the Respect for Marriage Act in 2022 protecting same-sex marriage, though framed his support primarily as expanding religious liberty protections
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For criminalizing participation in boycotts of Israel and Israeli settlements; co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (2017)
- For the 2026 U.S. military attack on Iran; supports preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles and voted against war powers resolutions that would have limited the war without congressional consent
- For strengthening U.S. missile defense systems in response to North Korean ICBM threats
Public Safety
- For cannabis policy reform; cosponsored the STATES Act, which would exempt individuals or corporations complying with state cannabis laws from federal enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act
- Against creating an independent commission to investigate the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack
- For police reform accountability measures; cosponsored the JUSTICE Act providing for police reform, accountability, and transparency