But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Dan Sullivan
- Backed with $25K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC +1 more
- Sits on Senate Armed Services
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).
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Deep Dive
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.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 10 of 10 tracked votes
Senate Committee on Armed Services
How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
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Voted to send weapons or funding in more than half of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 10 of 10 tracked votes.)
The money
$25K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
AIPAC (2026 endorsement) · Republican Jewish Coalition (2026 endorsement)
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
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.
- [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.
- [Position, read 2026-09-26] The 2026 Alaska primary voter guide, built by Alaska Public Media with KTOO, the Alaska Beacon and the Anchorage Daily News, asked every Senate candidate to complete the sentence "U.S. military aid to Israel should be ____". His entry in the guide reads: "A representative for the candidate acknowledged receiving the questionnaire, but the candidate did not fill it out." His opponents' entries are on their own pages. The guide carries no publication date of its own, so the entry is dated to the day it was read; the questionnaire went to the candidates ahead of the August 18, 2026 primary.
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. Not on the card summary.
- [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. Not on the card summary. 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 not on the card summary.
- 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.
- 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
- ✗Supports Mary Peltola (Democrat)
- ✗Supports Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. (Republican)
- ✗Supports Gerald L. Heikes (Republican)
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