Elissa Blair Slotkin (/slɒtkɪn/; born July 10, 1976) is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Michigan.

A member of the Democratic Party, Slotkin was previously a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense official.

Slotkin was elected to the Senate in 2024, defeating Republican nominee Mike Rogers in a close race decided by less than 20,000 votes.

[7] Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company, founded by her great-grandfather Samuel Slotkin, who emigrated from Minsk in 1900.

[11] After leaving the Defense Department in January 2017, Slotkin moved back to her family's farm in Holly, where she owned and operated Pinpoint Consulting.

[13] On August 7, Slotkin defeated Michigan State University criminal justice professor Christopher Smith in the Democratic primary with 70.7% of the vote.

[23] She also criticized his multiple votes against incentives for a new General Motors electric vehicle battery plant in Delta Township.

[22] Her win defied trends in other states that resulted in Democrats narrowly losing control of the House of Representatives for the 118th Congress.

[33] She won the Democratic primary on August 6, 2024, with 76% of the vote and narrowly defeated Republican nominee Mike Rogers[34][35] in the general election, outperforming the top of the ticket.

[53] During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Slotkin supported the bipartisan CARES Act relief package, which passed in March 2020.

Slotkin is one of five Democratic House members who voted against an amendment to prohibit support to and participation in the Saudi-led coalition's military operations against the Houthis in Yemen.

The bill was introduced after the 2021 Oxford High School shooting,[70] and passed by the House as part of the Protecting Our Kids Act.

[71] In 2023, after a mass shooting at Michigan State University in her district, Slotkin and Senator Ed Markey introduced the Gun Violence Prevention Research Act.

[75] In September 2019, Slotkin and six other freshman House Democrats authored an opinion piece in The Washington Post calling for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

[81][82] In 2020, during the Trump administration, Slotkin voted against an amendment, supported by 93% of the Democratic caucus, that would provide $10,000 debt relief for student loan borrowers.

[83][84] She also pushed the Department of Education to assist federal employees with student loan payments during the partial government shutdown.

[89] After the 2024 presidential election, Slotkin said that identity politics "needs to go the way of the dodo", adding that "people need to be looked at as independent Americans, whatever group they're from, whatever party they may be from.