Mike Rogers (MI) is asking Michigan to send him to the U.S. Senate. While he campaigns, his wife runs a group that charges big companies to get closer to the federal government.

The American Prospect reports that Kristi Rogers founded a trade group called PRISM in January 2025. Its members include General Motors, Siemens and the mining giant Glencore. If her husband wins, she would be selling access to the same government he would be part of.

Rogers's campaign and PRISM did not answer the Prospect's questions.

What the brochure promises

You don't have to take anyone's word for what PRISM sells. Its own two-page brochure lays it out, with Kristi Rogers listed as a founder.

Here is the price list, word for word:

• Founding Council: "$100K per company 'initiation', then $50K annual starting in 2026"
• Gold Membership: "$50,000 per year"
• Silver Membership: "$25,000 per year"

And here is one of the "benefits" companies get for that money:

Strengthen and increase high-level access

The same brochure says PRISM will "reach deeper into the U.S. and allied governments to effect lasting change" and build coalitions on things like permits, tariffs and export controls. Those are decisions made by Congress and federal agencies.

PRISM's website is just as direct. It says Founding Council members "will shape PRISM's direction and strategy" and "have final approval of any and all policy recommendations." It promises that Kristi Rogers and her co-founder "will also leverage their domestic and international networks on behalf of Founding Council members."

In plain words: companies pay, and the founders use their connections for them.

What the access looks like

The Prospect lists the doors PRISM has opened. According to its reporting, PRISM members met at the White House with Rep. Gary Palmer and at Cafe Milano with Sen. Jim Risch, and PRISM events included a dinner with Sen. Bill Hagerty and a Detroit event with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. In 2025, PRISM members also sat in on a conference hosted by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and the president of Uzbekistan.

PRISM's own page says it held a roundtable at the White House "with members of the National Security Council" on minerals and rare earths, on July 16.

One person on PRISM's Founding Council, Greg Bowman, is a former Siemens executive who has also served as chief global policy officer at USA Rare Earth. The Prospect reports that company got a $1.6 billion federal funding deal from Lutnick's Commerce Department.

"A direct and substantial conflict of interest"

Craig Holman, a government-ethics expert at Public Citizen, told the Prospect: "It does pose a direct and substantial conflict of interest once Rogers gets into office."

Holman said Senate ethics rules would bar Rogers from official matters that directly benefit his wife or companies tied to her. Think about how much that covers. PRISM's members make cars, mine metals and build technology. A senator from Michigan votes on all of that.

This isn't the first time

This is the second time this month that Kristi Rogers's business has come up next to her husband's power. Drop Site News reported on October 13 that she was a top executive at the security contractor Aegis when it won a $1.017 billion contract to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul — seven months after Rogers took over the House Intelligence Committee. The Rogers campaign called the idea that he used his office to help his family "patently false" and demanded a retraction. Drop Site refused.

Rogers has a long habit of mixing money and power. After leaving Congress, he sat on the audit committee of a cybersecurity firm that lost 99% of its value — and got paid, lent it money and got in line ahead of investors. On the campaign trail, he spent more than $100,000 of campaign cash on luxury travel in three months, most of it on private jets.

What the record shows

Mike Rogers (MI) is running for the Senate while his wife runs PRISM, a group whose own brochure charges companies a $100,000 "initiation" fee plus $50,000 a year and lists "high-level access" as a benefit. Its members include GM, Siemens and Glencore, and it has held events with senators, Cabinet secretaries and White House security staff. A Public Citizen ethics expert says that would be a direct conflict of interest if Rogers wins, and neither Rogers's campaign nor PRISM responded to the Prospect's questions about it.

Source

Mike Rogers's Wife Runs a Consultancy That Sells Government Access, Zachary Groz, The American Prospect, October 29, 2026.