Dan S. Sullivan
Sullivan and forty-seven Republican colleagues pressed the Biden administration to end its "partial arms embargo against Israel", and he called the delay of weapons "unacceptable and dangerous". His own bill would cut U.S. economic support for the Palestinian Authority (research).
Sullivan is Alaska's junior senator, a Republican seeking re-election, and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He has said a great deal about what the United States should send the government of Israel, and he has written bills about it.
In August 2024 he and forty-seven Republican senators wrote to President Biden to protest what the letter calls "your administration's partial arms embargo against Israel", listing the tank ammunition, mortar rounds, air-to-air missiles, aircraft engines, guidance kits and 2,000-pound bombs they said were being held back, and urging the president to "use every available emergency authority to expedite the physical delivery of all weapons and ammunition to Israel that have been approved by Congress." In his own name he added: "The administration's deliberate delay of weapons and other equipment to our greatest ally in the Middle East is unacceptable and dangerous."
He has also explained his votes. After the Senate refused to advance resolutions that would have blocked a series of arms sales, he said that "some Senate Democrats are giving credence to dangerous anti-Semitism" and promised that a Republican majority would make clear "that the United States once again stands proudly with Israel."
His legislation runs the same way on both of this site's questions. His bill to bar United States funding of and cooperation with the International Criminal Court also blocks economic support funds for the Palestinian Authority, which is United States money to Palestinians. With Senator Jim Risch he introduced a bill to cut off United States funding to United Nations agencies that restrict Israel's participation. And his United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act would extend the American weapons stockpile held in Israel to 2029, put a Defense Innovation Unit office there, and fund joint work on drones, tunnels and emerging military technology.
Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 10 of 10 recorded votes.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, 2024-08-02] With forty-seven Republican colleagues, signed a letter to President Biden protesting "your administration's partial arms embargo against Israel" and urging him to "use every available emergency authority to expedite the physical delivery of all weapons and ammunition to Israel that have been approved by Congress." His own statement on the same release: "During these dangerous times, the Biden-Harris administration must do a better job demonstrating to our allies and adversaries that the United States stands strongly with Israel", and "The administration's deliberate delay of weapons and other equipment to our greatest ally in the Middle East is unacceptable and dangerous." Opened and confirmed word for word. The letter itemises the held shipments: 120 mm tank ammunition, 120 mm mortar ammunition, light tactical vehicles, air-to-air missiles, F-15s, F-35 engines, joint direct attack munition kits, 2,000 pound bombs, rifles and guided missile systems.
- [Position, 2024-11-20] After the Senate declined to advance three resolutions of disapproval that would have halted a series of arms and munitions sales, he issued a statement: "As Israel fights for its very right to exist, some Senate Democrats are giving credence to dangerous anti-Semitism", and "Rest assured, when Senate Republicans assume the majority in January, we will make clear to our friends and foes around the world that the United States once again stands proudly with Israel." Confirmed word for word. This is the statement in his own words explaining the votes shown on this card, which the earlier pass could not find.
- [Position, 2025-02-13] Introduced the United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025 as one of three bills. The release's own summary: it reauthorises the War Reserves Stockpile Authority in Israel through January 1, 2029, establishes a Defense Innovation Unit office in Israel, funds a counter-drone programme at $150 million a year, raises the existing counter-drone programme from $55 million to $75 million a year, extends the anti-tunnelling programme at $80 million a year, and provides $47.5 million a year for emerging-technology collaboration. Confirmed word for word. His words on the package: "Taken together, this suite of bills sends a clear message that the United States stands firmly with Israel."
- His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card with their own roll-call sources. They run one way, and the November 2024 statement above is his own account of why.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Position, 2024-05-24] The bill he introduced to bar United States cooperation with and funding of the International Criminal Court also "prohibits economic support funds under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 from being made available to the Palestinian Authority". Confirmed word for word from his own release. Direction named: against that channel of United States money to Palestinians.
- [Position, 2025-02-13] The Stop the ICC Act in his 2025 package carries the same prohibition, described in the release as barring "U.S. economic support for the Palestinian Authority (PA) based on its cooperation with the ICC's investigations against Israeli officials."
- [Position, 2024-11-15] The Stand with Israel Act, introduced with Senator Jim Risch and thirty-two colleagues, would cut off United States funding to United Nations agencies that expel, downgrade, suspend or otherwise restrict Israel's participation. His words: "the United States will not continue to fund this organization if member states or entities limit Israel's participation in the United Nations or further attempt to persecute the Jewish state."
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-05-24] "The ICC's false moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas is reprehensible and dangerous", and "Israel is facing a threat to its very existence from a barbaric enemy that actually uses civilians as human shields and welcomes civilian casualties as part of its strategy." Confirmed word for word.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-07] His statement condemning the Hamas attack. Off the card (C1).
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-23] His release from Israel, "Be Warned, Iran: The United States Will Defend Its Friend and Ally", from a Senate delegation trip. Off the card (C1). The Anchorage Daily News covered the trip as it began.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2024-11-15] The Stand with Israel Act release, above, and its background note on the Palestinian Authority's standing at the United Nations.
- [Position, 2025-02-13] The same package includes the Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act. Iran sanctions are outside this site's two questions and are listed so a reader can see what was read.
- Republican Jewish Coalition lifetime support of $20,000 is a badge on this card and is not restated in prose.
- An advocacy site, https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/dan_sullivan, catalogues his record and donations. It opens, but it is a campaigning page rather than a document, so nothing is taken from it and it is not linked in the card text.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Reaction window, 2023-12-18] His office's summary of a Wall Street Journal opinion piece about a protest in Harvard's Widener Library. Dated inside the reaction window, so off the card (C1).
- The November 2024 and February 2025 statements above both frame opposition to arms sales, and the International Criminal Court's actions, as antisemitism. That framing is his and is quoted as his.
Race and status context
- Candidate in the 2026 U.S. Senate race, per the Alaska Division of Elections candidate list and Ballotpedia's race page. Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
- The Democrat challenging him has her own card in this batch, as does another candidate in the same race.
- A video of him after the Israeli prime minister's address to Congress sits on Facebook, at https://www.facebook.com/SenDanSullivan/videos/i-just-walked-out-of-the-incredible-speech-by-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-h/878038460879595/, and on YouTube. Neither returns readable text to us, so nothing is quoted from either.
Also in this race: Gerald L. (Jerry) Heikes (Republican), Mary Peltola (Democrat), Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. (Republican) · All Alaska candidates.
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