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The Metro: Michigan Republican Tom Barrett disagrees with Trump’s war. Can he keep his seat?

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By: Sam Corey
28 September 2026 at 20:09

One of the most watched races across the country is in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. That area includes Lansing, East Lansing, and the farm counties and exurbs around them, out to Livingston County and the edge of Oakland County.

Republican Congressman Tom Barrett won the seat two years ago by less than four points, and both parties think it could decide who has a majority in the House of Representatives. Barrett’s opponent is progressive Democrat Will Lawrence. The Metro spoke with him last week.

Barrett spent 22 years in the Army. He was deployed to Iraq and Guantánamo Bay, and served nearly a decade in the state legislature before going to Washington.

Since then he’s done something most Republicans haven’t. Four times, he’s voted to say only Congress can authorize war with Iran, and he’s kept President Donald Trump’s endorsement anyway.

Over the weekend, President Trump rejected an Iranian offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The war has continued, and so has the increasing cost of gas prices.

Congressman Barrett joined The Metro‘s Robyn Vincent to discuss where his positions overlap — and don’t — with President Trump’s, and what his plans are if he’s able to keep his seat.

In the conversation, Congressman Tom Barrett said that over 10 million undocumented immigrants flooded across our border when then-President Joe Biden was in office. 

Research from the conservative Cato Institute estimates that the net increase in the undocumented immigrant population during the Biden administration was closer to about 5.5 million people. That’s because millions of people were expelled, deported or returned to their home country or Mexico before President Donald Trump took office.

Hear the full conversation using the media player above.

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Mike Rogers weakened housing rules while his family was in the building business

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By: Steve Neavling
24 August 2026 at 15:01

Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers is pitching deregulation as a path to cheaper housing decades after pushing measures that weakened building safeguards and energy-efficiency standards while his family was in the construction business.

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Mike Rogers attacks waste and fraud while taking money from donors linked to both

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By: Steve Neavling
11 August 2026 at 15:17

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers has made rooting out government fraud a centerpiece of his campaign. But some of the people helping finance his return to Washington have their own histories with fraud.

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Huizenga’s campaign paid his brother’s business $400,000 as he sold the congressman’s condos

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By: Steve Neavling
13 July 2026 at 17:31

Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga’s campaign has paid more than $400,000 to a company owned by his brother, who has simultaneously worked as a full-time real estate agent and helped sell luxury condos owned by Huizenga and his wife.

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Mike Rogers tries to rewrite Michigan’s autoworker history with false claim

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By: Steve Neavling
23 June 2026 at 17:16

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is trying to bolster his blue-collar image as he runs for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, casting himself as a former autoworker who understands the state’s factory jobs.

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