Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a former CIA analyst and Pentagon official, took her Senate seat in January 2025 and sits on the Armed Services, Agriculture, Homeland Security, and Veterans' Affairs committees. Her financial profile is modest by congressional standards: trackers estimate her net worth around $463K, and her disclosed publicly-traded holdings (IBM, Kyndryl — an IBM spinoff, plus bank deposits) are small and show no evidence of active individual-stock trading, keeping self-dealing risk on trading low. The most substantive accountability flags are spouse-related: her then-husband worked for Emissary LLC, a consulting firm awarded government contracts largely after she took office in 2019, and she filed amended disclosures in 2022 (attributed to a "clerical error") after omitting his employment for two years. A separate FEC complaint alleging campaign-funds personal use via below-market rent from a lobbyist/donor was dismissed, with the Commission finding no reason to believe a violation occurred. Overall the record is comparatively clean, with the spouse-contractor overlap being the main correlation-not-proof concern.
Public record
In Congress since
2019
Committees
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Armed Services Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Veterans' Affairs
Missed votes, 119th Congress
2.7% (25 of 915; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$5.2M raised · 1% from PACs & committees · $2.7M cash on hand FEC ↗
H.R. 7008 bans new stock purchases by members, spouses and dependents; it doesn't force sales of existing holdings. The Senate vote was on the version paired with the SAVE Act, which is why no Democrat voted yes. Full breakdown →
Disclosed stock trades
No periodic transaction reports on file since 2024. That's the norm: most members don't trade individual stocks, or hold them in blind trusts and diversified funds.
Amounts are the ranges members must report, not exact values. The STOCK Act requires a report within 45 days of a trade; "late" counts days past that deadline, measured to the filing date.
How the score breaks down
Stock self-trading
25% weight
8
No evidence of active individual-stock trading. Disclosures show small, apparently passively-held positions (up to $50K IBM, up to $15K Kyndryl — an IBM spinoff, consistent with a legacy holding) plus bank deposits; trackers estimate only ~$7K in live trackable public equities. No pattern of volume, committee-sector timing, or market-beating trades found.
No evidence of net-worth growth beyond salary and market. Trackers estimate net worth around $463K, low for Congress, and there is no documented abnormal accumulation during her tenure. Insufficient longitudinal data to score positively; absence is not penalized.
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
30
Correlation, not proof. Slotkin raised heavily ($23M+ in the 2024 Senate cycle) and sits on Armed Services as ranking member of the Emerging Threats subcommittee, jurisdiction overlapping defense/national-security donors. OpenSecrets tracks her industry donors but specific defense-sector concentration tied to specific votes was not isolatable from available data; flag reflects committee-sector exposure, not demonstrated quid pro quo.
An FEC complaint alleged Slotkin converted campaign funds to personal use via below-market rent from a lobbyist/donor (Hollister) during her 2022 House race. The FEC found no reason to believe a violation occurred, concluding she paid fair market value. Complaint existed but was dismissed; low residual concern.
Slotkin's then-husband, Dave Moore, worked for Emissary LLC, a management-consulting firm; per USASpending it was awarded millions in government contracts, most after Slotkin took office in January 2019. She filed amended 2020 and 2021 disclosures in 2022 (after a Fox News inquiry) that had omitted his employment, which her office attributed to a clerical error. Family-income overlap with federal contractors tied to her tenure is documented; intent/influence not established.
No specific 2025 Senate missed-votes percentage was retrievable from GovTrack in available data, and no evidence of a pattern of skipping votes for fundraising or paid speeches was found. One isolated missed vote series (July 2025 Israel arms resolutions) was noted but does not establish a pattern. Absence of data; not penalized.
Sources behind this score: 3 data aggregator · 3 news reporting · 2 reference database. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 1 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →
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