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2026 ELECTIONS / CANDIDATE PROFILE

Alaska · Senate · Republican

Dan Sullivan

Military, family and veteran policy record.

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DUTYSTATION SOURCE SUMMARY

What the candidate publicly states

This summary is written by DutyStation from the linked public sources.

The campaign emphasizes military investment, national defense and his service background. Those broad priorities do not specify a new pay formula, military-family benefits package or VA access plan on the reviewed homepage. His office statement and selected vote are identified separately below.

Reviewed 2026-09-27. Assessment of the named public campaign pages only; not an exhaustive archive, ballot certification or complete record review.

Published sources reviewed

Policy summary: potential benefits and tradeoffs

DutyStation analysis. The positions below are our summaries of the linked sources. Potential benefits and tradeoffs are our analysis, not the candidate’s own words or guaranteed outcomes. An evidence gap is not a negative finding.

Military & pay

Office statement

His Senate office highlights troop pay and Alaska military construction in the FY2025 defense authorization.

Potential benefit

Those provisions are intended to support personnel compensation and military infrastructure.

Tradeoff or unresolved question

Authorization is not the same as appropriated funding, and a package vote is not a vote on each provision.

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Military families

No specific proposal identified in the published sources reviewed.

The listed sources do not provide enough detail for a candidate-specific benefit or tradeoff assessment in this area. This is a gap in these sources, not a finding of opposition.

Veterans

No specific proposal identified in the published sources reviewed.

The listed sources do not provide enough detail for a candidate-specific benefit or tradeoff assessment in this area. This is a gap in these sources, not a finding of opposition.

Defense contracting

No specific proposal identified in the published sources reviewed.

The listed sources do not provide enough detail for a candidate-specific benefit or tradeoff assessment in this area. This is a gap in these sources, not a finding of opposition.

Policy-alignment scores

Alignment with our published policy criteria, not a measure of patriotism or a recommendation on how to vote.

Military & pay

Not enough evidence

Selected official actions: 1 · Full scoring review incomplete

Military families

Not enough evidence

Selected official actions: 1 · Full scoring review incomplete

Veterans

Not enough evidence

Selected official actions: 0 · Full scoring review incomplete

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Selected official record

2024-12-18 · Official record

FY2025 defense authorization

Voted Yea

Final concurrence on H.R. 5009; not a standalone troop-pay vote. Excluded from numerical scoring pending provision-level review.

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