Kansas Senator Roger Marshall voted for the July 2025 law that canceled roughly $8 billion for foreign assistance programs, after casting a vote that let the Senate take it up on a 50-50 tie broken by the Vice President, and he voted against four amendments to keep money for disease programs, UNICEF, Europe and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He also cast a vote that, with the Vice President's, killed a Venezuela war powers resolution in January 2026, voted against stopping the boat strikes and against two amendments backing aid to Ukraine, and voted for the point of order that ended Senate debate on a Cuba war powers resolution.
Marshall voted to confirm Marco Rubio as secretary of state, Christopher Landau as his deputy and Russell Vought as budget director. Rubio's department canceled 83% of programs funded by U.S. Agency for International Development and laid off more than 1,350 employees, and the January 2025 halt of Food for Peace left a Larned, Kansas grain co-op sitting on nearly $5,000,000 worth of grain sorghum.
Roger Marshall's Votes on Foreign Aid, War Powers and the State Department
- Marshall Voted to Cancel About $8 Billion in Foreign Aid in July 2025. On July 17, 2025, Roger Marshall voted for H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act, which passed 51 to 48, after he had voted to take the bill up on a 50-50 vote broken by the Vice President, a vote that would have failed without his. His office then hailed the Senate for "cutting $9 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse." The law canceled roughly $8 billion for foreign assistance programs, including $500 million in global health funding, money Congress had approved months earlier. It came after the State Department took over programs previously run by the U.S. Agency for International Development and shut the agency on July 1, 2025.
- Marshall Voted Against Keeping Money for Disease Programs, UNICEF and the Institute of Peace in July 2025. During the July 16-17, 2025 debate on the Rescissions Act, Marshall voted no on four amendments to keep money the bill canceled: for programs addressing diseases, for assistance to Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia, for UNICEF and other international organizations, and for the U.S. Institute of Peace. The Europe amendment failed 49 to 50, so a yes vote from Marshall would have kept that money in the law. PATH, a global health nonprofit, said the law ended up rescinding $500 million in global health funding.
- Marshall Cast One of the Votes That Killed a Venezuela War Powers Resolution in January 2026. On January 14, 2026, eleven days after United States forces raided Caracas in an operation named "Absolute Resolve", Marshall voted yes on a point of order that ended Senate consideration of a resolution to remove forces from hostilities against Venezuela that Congress had not authorized. The vote was 50 to 50 and the Vice President broke the tie, so the resolution would have survived without Marshall's vote. Cuba said 32 of its personnel were killed in the raid, and Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US operation, Al Jazeera reported.
- Marshall Voted Twice Against Stopping the Boat Strikes and Military Action Against Venezuela in 2025. Marshall voted no on October 8, 2025 on taking up a resolution to remove forces from hostilities Congress had not authorized, after a month of strikes on boats in the Caribbean, and again on November 6 on a resolution covering hostilities within or against Venezuela, which failed 49 to 51. The first strike, on September 2, 2025, killed 11, and by October 2026 the campaign had reached 79 strikes and 238 killed, including at least 22 people who had survived an initial strike only to be hit again or die at sea, the Associated Press reported.
- Marshall Voted to End Debate on a Cuba War Powers Resolution in April 2026. On April 28, 2026, Marshall voted yes on a point of order that ended Senate consideration of a resolution to remove forces from hostilities within or against Cuba that Congress had not authorized; it passed 51 to 47. Under a fuel blockade, Cuba had completely run out of diesel and fuel oil amid a US blockade by May 2026, The Guardian reported.
- Marshall Voted Against Barring Last-Minute "Pocket Rescissions" of Foreign Aid in January 2026. On January 30, 2026, Marshall voted no on waiving budget rules for Senator Jeff Merkley's amendment "to prevent the deferral or rescission of appropriations within 90 days of their expiration." It failed 47 to 52. In August 2025 the administration had moved to yank nearly $5 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress this way, and the Supreme Court's interim order allowed President Trump's administration to withhold more than $4 billion in foreign aid funding until the money expired.
- Marshall Voted Twice Against Backing Continued Support for Ukraine in 2025. On February 21, 2025, Marshall voted no on a budget amendment "to ensure continued United States support for the Government of Ukraine to stand firm against aggression by the Government of Russia in Europe," which failed 47 to 53. On April 4, 2025, he also voted against an amendment "to prevent any disruption in security assistance to Ukraine," which failed 48 to 51. Between those votes the administration suspended military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, then lifted its suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing on March 11, 2025, the Associated Press reported.
- Marshall Voted Against Barring Strike Plans From Commercial Messaging Apps After the Signal Chat. On April 4, 2025, ten days after a journalist published the Signal chat about strikes in Yemen, Marshall voted no on an amendment to protect service members "by prohibiting the use of any commercial messaging application to transmit information revealing the timing, sequencing, or weapons to be used during impending United States military operations." It failed 46 to 53. The Defense Department's inspector general later found that Secretary Pete Hegseth sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information, including the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm Marco Rubio, Whose Department Canceled Most Foreign Aid Programs and Halted Food for Peace. On January 20, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Marco Rubio as secretary of state. In January 2025 the administration brought Food for Peace to a stop and nearly half a billion dollars worth of food aid bound for needy countries was suddenly stranded; on March 10, 2025 Rubio announced the cancellation of 83% of programs funded by U.S. Agency for International Development. A study in The Lancet projected that the cuts could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030 if they are not reversed.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm the Deputy Secretary of State Who Oversaw the Department's Layoffs. On March 24, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Christopher Landau as deputy secretary of state. On July 11, 2025, the department sent layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers, and a year later NPR reported that more than 1,350 employees, including foreign services officers were laid off.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm Russell Vought, Whose Budget Office Moved to Revoke Nearly $5 Billion in Foreign Aid. On February 6, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Russell Vought as director of the Office of Management and Budget. On August 29, 2025, the administration moved to revoke nearly $5 billion in foreign aid that Congress had approved, the pocket rescission the Supreme Court's interim order later let stand.
- Marshall Voted to Confirm the Export-Control Official Who Licensed AI Chip Sales to China. On March 13, 2025, Marshall voted to confirm Jeffrey Kessler as the Commerce Department's under secretary for industry and security, who runs export controls. Commerce began licensing Nvidia's H20 chips for China in exchange for 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China; the China page covers the details.
What the Food for Peace Halt Under the Officials Roger Marshall Confirmed Cost Kansas
- Food for Peace and Kansas sorghum (temporary). When the administration halted Food for Peace in January 2025, the Pawnee County Co-Op in Larned Kansas was left sitting on nearly $5,000,000 worth of grain sorghum, and the freeze left $340 million in lifesaving food grown in the United States sitting at domestic ports, the Kansas Reflector reported. Food for Peace buys about $2 billion worth of American farm commodities each year.
Frequently Asked Questions About Roger Marshall on Foreign policy
What is Roger Marshall's record on foreign policy under Trump?
Roger Marshall voted for the 2025 law that canceled about $8 billion in foreign aid, cast a vote that with the Vice President's killed a Venezuela war powers resolution, and voted against stopping the boat strikes, which killed 238 people by October 2026. He voted against two amendments backing aid to Ukraine and voted to confirm the State Department and budget officials who carried out the aid cuts, the layoffs and the pocket rescission.
How did Roger Marshall vote on cutting foreign aid and global health programs?
Roger Marshall voted for the Rescissions Act on July 17, 2025, and his vote to take it up was needed because that vote was tied 50 to 50. In June 2025 he had said of the package, "I am proud to support this package," and he then voted against each amendment to keep money for disease programs, UNICEF, Europe and the Institute of Peace, including one that failed 49 to 50.
Did Roger Marshall vote to limit military action against Venezuela?
No. Roger Marshall voted against taking up war powers resolutions on the boat strikes and on Venezuela in October and November 2025, and after the January 3, 2026 raid on Caracas he voted for the point of order that ended the Senate's consideration of a third resolution on a 50 to 50 vote.
How did the USAID shutdown affect Kansas farmers?
Roger Marshall voted to confirm Marco Rubio, who ran USAID as it was shut, and the January 2025 Food for Peace halt left a Larned co-op sitting on nearly $5,000,000 worth of grain sorghum. NPR called Food for Peace a venerable food aid program that Kansas farmers love.
Last updated: 2026-10-25