# Bill Huizenga Republican U.S. Representative for **Michigan's 4th Congressional District**, in Congress since 2011. The district covers southwestern Michigan, including Kalamazoo and Holland. He sits on **House Financial Services**, where he has become one of the crypto industry's dependable votes, and in 2025 he stood aside from a Senate run at Trump's urging. ## Background Born in 1969 in Zeeland, Michigan, Huizenga worked in real estate before joining the staff of Rep. Pete Hoekstra in 1996. He co-owns the family business, Huizenga Gravel, in Jenison. He served in the Michigan House from 2003 to 2009, then won the 2010 race for Hoekstra's open seat, beating Democrat Fred Johnson 64%–32%. He represented the old 2nd District until redistricting after the 2020 census, then moved to the 4th in 2023 when [[Fred Upton]] retired. In December 2020 he signed the House Republicans' amicus brief supporting Texas's Supreme Court suit to overturn the presidential results in Pennsylvania and three other states. The Court refused to hear the case. ## The Senate decision When Democrat Gary Peters announced his retirement, Huizenga spent months weighing a run for the open seat. On **July 23, 2025** he announced he would not run, saying he had decided after talking with his family and with Trump. Trump had endorsed [[Mike Rogers]] and urged Huizenga to seek re-election instead. His exit cleared the Republican field for Rogers. See [[MI-Sen-2026]]. ## Crypto Huizenga backs the [[CLARITY Act]] (H.R. 3633), the market-structure bill that would set federal rules for digital commodities. At an August 25, 2026 **[[Stand With Crypto]]** roundtable in Kalamazoo, where that group listed him among 32 endorsed candidates, he called crypto "that great equalizer." His spokesperson called the local public-radio station, WMUK, a "hostile outlet" and at first refused its questions before allowing one. The industry's super PAC network has paid back the support. [[Fairshake PAC]] filed **$1,007,096.76** in positive independent expenditures for him in MI-04 in the 2026 cycle, in the same batch as similar sums for fellow Financial Services Republicans Bryan Steil and French Hill. A safe incumbent receiving seven figures is the point: the spending rewards a vote, not a close race. ## 2026 He won renomination on **August 4, 2026** with about 85% over former Holland mayor Phil Tanis and faces Democratic state senator [[Sean McCann]] in November, with Trump's endorsement. He was re-elected in 2024 with 55.1%, and forecasters have treated MI-04 as safely Republican. He entered the cycle with nearly $1.9M on hand as of March 31, 2026. See [[MI-04-2026]]. ## See Also - [[MI-04-2026]] · [[Sean McCann]] · [[MI-Sen-2026]] · [[Mike Rogers]] - [[Fairshake PAC]] · [[Stand With Crypto]] · [[CLARITY Act]] · [[GENIUS Act]]