Mike Rounds
Conservative
Republican
Senator
South Dakota
Current Position: Senator from South Dakota
Running For: Senator
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For protecting Social Security and Medicare; supports reforms to keep programs solvent without cutting benefits
Health Care
- Against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare); has voted to repeal it and supports lawsuits to overturn it
Education
- For eliminating the Department of Education; believes in local control of education
Environment
- For American energy independence; supports 'all-of-the-above' approach to energy production and opposes excessive federal regulations on energy producers
- Against the Paris Climate Agreement; signed letter urging Trump to withdraw the United States from the agreement
Civil Rights
- Against abortion rights; signed trigger law prohibiting abortion except when mother's life is at risk and supported overturning Roe v. Wade
Voting Rights & Democracy
- For acknowledging the 2020 presidential election was fair; stated election was not stolen from Trump despite irregularities
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For border security; supports funding for building the wall, advanced surveillance technology and increased personnel for border enforcement
- For the Israel Anti-Boycott Act; co-sponsored legislation making it a federal crime to boycott Israel and Israeli settlements
Public Safety
- For Second Amendment rights; works to protect rights of law-abiding gun owners
- Against the FIRST STEP Act criminal justice reform bill