The file

Tim Sheehy

Republican · U.S. Senator, Montana · Montana · Spectrum score +50

Senate ·

Tim Sheehy is U.S. Senator, Montana in Montana. Political positions and ideology score +50 (Right). Sheehy is the veteran-founder.

College: U.S. Naval Academy, B.S. 2008
Spouse: Carmen Sheehy
Children: Four
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Montana · 2025–
Founder / CEO · Bridger Aerospace · 2014–2024
U.S. Navy SEAL officer · 2008–2014

Net worth: $35.0M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $30.0M
2026 raised: $3.2M
Years in office: 1

Where Tim stands on the spectrum

Tim Sheehy scores +50 on Spectrum’s left–right line (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 +50 · Right · economic +52 · social +48 · authoritarian +25

Confidence 86. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Sheehy is the veteran-founder. The file is a company that sells to the government, a 2024 that nationalized Montana, and a conflict so on-the-nose that only the volume of the race buried it.

Finances

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

Net worth

$35.0M

+17% since taking office

Company / disclosure estimate, 2025

Before office$30.0M

Now$35.0M

Bridger Aerospace. A defense-adjacent aviation company is the fortune and the conflict.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $3.2M
Cash on hand: $5.0M

Top industries

Defense contractors
Aviation
Self-funding
Energy

Stock holdings

Private companies / family office

A defense-adjacent aviation company. Public and private pieces. The Senate votes on his old customers.

Bridger Aerospace / Senate, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

BAER
Bridger Aerospace
Self · Company he built
$5.0M–$25.0M

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
BAER	Bridger AerospaceCompany he built	Self	$5.0M–$25.0M

Sum of ranges $5.0M–$25.0M · midpoint $15.0M

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

A Senate that votes on wildfire, aviation, and Pentagon accounts that touch his old customers.
Montana-outsider brand with a company that needed federal customers.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +52
Social: +48
Authoritarian: +25
Confidence: 86

Taxes & spending+54
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+58
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+60
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+44
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+46
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+66
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+46
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+58
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

2024 campaign
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.