Roger Marshall on Big Tech and Privacy: Repealing Payment-App Privacy Oversight, Cutting the Consumer Bureau, and Confirming the Officials Who Gave Agencies Americans' Tax, Medicaid and Food-Aid Records

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall voted on March 5, 2025 to repeal the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's oversight of the biggest payment apps (roll call 106), including Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, and Facebook, a step Consumer Reports said puts the privacy of their sensitive financial data at risk. On June 30, 2025, he voted against keeping the bureau's funding, which the One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut to $446 million for 2025.

Marshall also voted to confirm the officials who gave immigration agents and other agencies Americans' private records: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agreement sent ICE more than 47,000 records from tax files before a court held it unlawful; HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Medicaid chief Mehmet Oz, whose agency gave ICE access to Medicaid enrollees' addresses; and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, whose department demanded the personal records of food-aid recipients from every state. In southwest Kansas, immigration agents were demanding proof of immigration status during traffic stops and from employees entering beef processing plants in September 2026.

Roger Marshall's Votes on Consumer Privacy and the Officials Who Shared Americans' Records

• Marshall Voted to End Federal Privacy Oversight of the Biggest Payment Apps in March 2025. On March 5, 2025, Roger Marshall voted yes on S.J.Res. 28, which passed 51-47 and repealed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that let it supervise the largest payment apps, including for compliance with the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Congressional Research Service explained. Consumer Reports said the repeal puts the privacy of their sensitive financial data at risk, because payment app providers collect extensive personal data from users and share that information widely with other companies.
• Marshall Voted Against Restoring the Consumer Bureau's Funding in June 2025. On June 30, 2025, Marshall voted no on a motion to strike the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's cut to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding cap; it failed 47-53. He then voted for the bill, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's vote. The cut decreased the funding cap in FY2025 to $446 million from $823 million, nearly a 50 percent reduction in funding for the agency that supervises payment apps, credit bureaus and data brokers.
• Marshall Cast a Deciding Vote for the Law That Paid for ICE's Surveillance Buildup. On July 1, 2025, Marshall voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed 50-50 with the Vice President's vote and gave ICE $75 billion over four years. Brookings found ICE's tools, some of which were funded by the law, include facial recognition technology, automatic license plate readers, cell-site simulators, phone location databases. ICE also resumed a $2 million contract with the spyware manufacturer, Paragon, whose software can harvest messages from multiple different encrypted chat apps, and checks faces against a database of 200 million photos, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Two Officials Who Sent Taxpayers' IRS Records to ICE. Marshall voted to confirm Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security on January 25, 2025 (roll call 17) and Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary on January 27, 2025 (roll call 19). In April 2025 their departments signed an agreement for the IRS to give ICE taxpayers' addresses, and the IRS turned over more than 47,000 records ultimately deemed unlawful, and a court found it broke the tax privacy law "approximately 42,695 times". In September 2026 a federal appeals court held the agreement indisputably contravenes the requirements of the law.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Health Officials Who Gave ICE Access to Medicaid Records. Marshall voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary on February 13, 2025 and Mehmet Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid on April 3, 2025 (roll call 167). Their agency agreed last spring to give ICE officials direct access to a Medicaid database that includes enrollees’ addresses and citizenship status. A court limited the sharing for the states that sued, but deportation officials have access to personal Medicaid information of all enrollees in the remaining 28 states, and court filings showed ICE shared Medicaid data it shouldn’t have with Palantir.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm Brooke Rollins, Whose Department Demanded Food-Aid Recipients' Personal Records From the States. On February 13, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture. In 2025 her department demanded that states turn over records on food-aid recipients back to 2020, including their names, dates of birth, home addresses, Social Security numbers and benefits amounts, and NPR reported that At least 27 states turned over sensitive data about food stamp recipients to USDA. Democratic state officials have argued the data demand is unlawful and likely part of a pattern of gathering Americans' personal data for purposes that include immigration enforcement.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the Social Security Commissioner Whose Agency Admitted DOGE May Have Misused Records. On May 6, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Frank Bisignano as Commissioner of Social Security. In a January 2026 court filing, the government conceded that DOGE associates may have improperly accessed sensitive data at the agency, including sharing of data via a third-party Cloudflare server; a whistleblower had alleged the copying put "more than 300 million people's personal information at risk".
• Marshall Voted to Confirm Russell Vought, Who Dropped a Rule to Stop Data Brokers From Selling Americans' Information. On February 6, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Russell Vought as budget director. As acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Vought withdrew a proposed rule against data brokers selling sensitive information, in a notice he issued as acting director of the agency; the bureau had warned that identity thieves and scammers purchase detailed financial profiles to target vulnerable consumers. By March 2025, 90% of the CFPB's staff had been cut, the Associated Press reported.
• Marshall Voted to Confirm the FCC Commissioner Who Helped Repeal Phone-Network Security Rules. On June 18, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Olivia Trusty to the Federal Communications Commission. In November 2025, Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty approved the reversal of a rule requiring phone companies to secure their networks, which had been introduced in the aftermath of the China-linked Salt Typhoon intrusions into U.S. carriers.

What the Data Sharing and Consumer-Protection Cuts Roger Marshall Backed Mean in Kansas

• Immigration checks in southwest Kansas. During the September 2026 operation in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal, agents were demanding proof of immigration status during traffic stops and from employees entering beef processing plants, the Kansas Reflector reported, and The federal government reported making more than 100 arrests.
• Payment app users. Kansans who use Venmo, Cash App or Google Pay no longer have their accounts covered by the consumer bureau's supervision of the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, after the repeal Marshall voted for.

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