The file

Mike Lee

Republican · U.S. Senator, Utah · Utah · Spectrum score +76

Senate ·

Mike Lee is U.S. Senator, Utah in Utah. Political positions and ideology score +76 (Far right). Lee is the constitutionalist with a public-lands problem.

College: Brigham Young University, B.A. 1994 · BYU Law School, J.D. 1997
Spouse: Sharon Burr Lee (m. 1993)
Children: Three
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Utah · 2011–
Assistant U.S. Attorney · District of Utah · 2002–2005
Law clerk · Justice Samuel Alito / Judge Dee Benson · 1997–1999

Net worth: $2.4M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $600K
2026 raised: $5.5M
Years in office: 15

Where Mike stands on the spectrum

Mike Lee scores +76 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +76 · Far right · economic +70 · social +64 · authoritarian +34

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Lee is the constitutionalist with a public-lands problem. The file is a Utah senator whose donors want the map redrawn and whose legal brand got used in 2020 in ways the Sunday shows treated as a phase. The acreage is still federal.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$2.4M

+300% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$600K

Now$2.4M

Utah legal caste, not a ski-resort fortune. Federalist Society world plus energy-and-land donors.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $5.5M
Cash on hand: $2.2M

Top industries

Lawyers
Energy
Land / grazing
Conservative PACs

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Utah legal caste. Funds and land, not a day desk.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$50K–$250K
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$15K–$75K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$50K–$250K
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$15K–$75K

Sum of ranges $65K–$325K · midpoint $195K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

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Conflicts

Public-lands votes in a state that is half federal acreage.
2020 legal theories he later papered over.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +70
Social: +64
Authoritarian: +34
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+74
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+62
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+70
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+80
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+58
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+68
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+72
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+78
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+66
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+66
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+66
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.89

Compass

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Sources

DW-NOMINATE
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.