Roger Marshall

Nationalist

Republican

Senator

Kansas

Current Position: Senator from Kansas

Running For: Senator

Policy Positions

For making the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, including the small business deduction, full expensing, R&D expensing, and expanded child tax credit; voted yea on the Working Families Tax Cuts
For Trump administration tariffs policy

For allowing state-inspected beef to cross state lines without re-inspection; lead sponsor of the DIRECT Act (S. 3099)
For reforming Medicare Advantage prior authorization; leads the Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act (S. 1816) imposing 24- and 72-hour decision deadlines, and the Medicare Advantage Improvement Act banning retroactive denials and automated denial algorithms
For requiring hospitals, surgery centers, imaging centers, and clinical labs to publish upfront prices; lead sponsor of the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (S. 2355)
For making COVID-era telehealth flexibilities permanent; cosponsor of the CONNECT for Health Act (S. 1261)
For the PACT Act providing expanded VA benefits and healthcare for veterans exposed to burn pits and toxic substances; voted yea in August 2022
Against the Affordable Care Act; supports repealing and replacing Obamacare, voted for the American Health Care Act of 2017, and opposes Medicaid expansion in Kansas
Against COVID-19 face mask mandates; opposes mandates while not disputing mask effectiveness, and appeared at indoor events without masks

For restoring whole and 2% milk to the National School Lunch Program; led the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, signed into law January 2026

For eliminating Biden-era countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco to lower input costs for American farmers (S. 4418)
For year-round E15 ethanol fuel sales; cosponsor of the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act (S. 593) to make the E15 summer waiver permanent
Against the Biden-era natural gas methane fee; cosponsored the Natural Gas Tax Repeal Act (S. 143) and the CRA resolution (H.J.Res.35) that voided the EPA methane-fee rule, signed by President Trump in March 2025
For permitting reform to accelerate pipeline and transmission line construction for wind, oil, and gas energy projects
Against the scientific consensus on climate change; stated 'I'm not sure that there is even climate change,' supported U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, and supports reducing EPA authority
For the federal renewable fuel standard requiring corn-based ethanol to be blended with gasoline
For the EATS Act, which would prohibit state and local governments from imposing production standards on agricultural goods sold in interstate commerce, introduced in response to California's Proposition 12
For water conservation funding for the Ogallala Aquifer; original cosponsor of the EQIP Water Conservation Act (S. 2696) and worked with USDA to launch the Groundwater Recharge and Sustainability Project in Wichita and Greeley counties

Against abortion rights; opposes abortion including in cases of rape and incest, called for overturning Roe v. Wade in 2020, and endorsed exceptions only to preserve the mother's life after Dobbs
Against the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act; was one of six Republican senators to vote against expanding it
For the Major Richard Star Act (S. 1032), which would end the offset forcing medically-retired combat-injured veterans to choose between retirement pay and disability compensation

Against stopgap continuing resolutions that increase spending without offsets; voted no on multiple such measures
Against certifying the 2020 presidential election results; objected to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes on January 6, 2021, and voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the Capitol attack on May 28, 2021

For mandatory ICE detention of unauthorized immigrants who commit certain crimes; cosponsored the Laken Riley Act (S. 5), signed into law January 2025
For building a border wall; cosponsor of the Build the Wall Act (S. 42)
For expanding 287(g) state and local immigration enforcement partnerships with Kansas sheriffs
For maintaining the H-2A agricultural guest worker program for legal agricultural labor
Against U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine; resisted Ukraine aid in 2022, voted against the $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan in April 2024, and again opposed Ukraine aid in early 2025, arguing spending priority should be border security
For dismantling USAID and the Food for Peace program; encouraged the Trump administration's halt of foreign aid, alleging 'significant fraud and abuse'
Against a war powers resolution to halt the 2026 Iran war until Congress authorized it; voted against the resolution in April 2026
For Trump's Executive Order 13769 (travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations)
For a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, combined with prioritizing border security in foreign affairs spending

For maintaining law enforcement funding for veterans rural VA access; supports CHAMPVA reimbursement, VA telehealth expansion, and the Mission Act community-care option
Against medical cannabis legalization; stated in 2017 he is 'not convinced that it's medically proven and a good idea' and has not seen enough scientific data to support it