But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check

Mike Rogers

Republican · U.S. House, Alabama District 3
✗Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes

Rogers, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, calls Israel "far and away the best ally the United States has in the Middle East". When the administration paused arms shipments in 2024, he and Representative McCaul said they were "appalled". Nothing located has him addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians.

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Deep Dive

Rogers represents Alabama’s 3rd District, is the sitting member, and chairs the House Armed Services Committee, the House’s defense-policy gavel.

His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card, all on the support side, including votes against both amendments to cut aid to Israel. When the administration paused selected weapons shipments to Israel in May 2024, he and House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul said in a joint statement: "We are appalled that the administration paused crucial arms shipments to Israel." In June 2026 he defended the FY27 defense bill’s United States–Israel technology-cooperation provision against claims it would put Israel in command of U.S. forces, telling JNS that "Israel is far and away the best ally the United States has in the Middle East" and that the cooperative programs strengthen American security; under his committee’s mark, the FY27 bill authorized $750 million for joint U.S.–Israel programs, itemized on the research page.

In October 2024 he joined a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that met Prime Minister Netanyahu and discussed both security assistance and humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza.

Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians as a question of its own, at any date. His statements from the weeks after the October 2023 attack, including his October 7 pledge of continued security assistance, are on the research page.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes

Committees

House Committee on Armed Services

Floor votes
H.R. 6126 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act2023-11-02 · Passed 226-196
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.R. 8034 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20242024-04-20 · Passed 366-58
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.R. 8369 - Israel Security Assistance Support Act2024-05-16 · Passed 224-187
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.R. 7217 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20242024-02-06 · Failed 250-180 (needed 2/3 under suspension)
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.Amdt. 55 to H.R. 4016 - strike $500M for Israeli Cooperative Programs2025-07-18 · Failed 6-422 (only 6 voted to cut)
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
H.R. 8595 - Massie amendment (Part A No. 8) to bar FY27 funds for Israel and cut $3.3B in Foreign Military Financing2026-07-15 · Failed 104-314
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
Bill sponsorship
H.R. 3565 - Block the Bombs ActWould bar transfer of 2,000-lb/BLU-109 bunker busters, JDAMs, 120mm tank rounds, and 155mm artillery shells to Israel. Does not affect Iron
Not sponsoringhas not backed this restriction bill
H.R. 1229 - United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025Formalizes/expands bilateral defense cooperation with Israel.
Not sponsoringhas not backed this support bill
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 6 of 6 tracked votes.)

The money

$7K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track

Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $7,100
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
AIPAC$7,100The American Israel Public Affairs Committee; its PAC backs candidates it sees as strengthening U.S. ties with the government of Israel, including continued U.S. military aid.Direct contributions and independent expenditures supporting this candidate from the five lobbying groups we track, every cycle each has filed, through 2026. Excludes earmarked and conduit contributions.
Endorsed by AIPAC
AIPACThe American Israel Public Affairs Committee; its PAC backs candidates it sees as strengthening U.S. ties with the government of Israel, including continued U.S. military aid.These endorsements come from groups that back sending U.S. weapons and funding to the government of Israel.

In their words

“Israel is far and away the best ally the United States has in the Middle East”
Source ↗, 2026-06-03
“We are appalled that the administration paused crucial arms shipments to Israel.”
Source ↗, 2024-05-09
Endorsements

AIPAC (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

  • His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card, all support-side, including No on the amendment striking $500 million for Israeli Cooperative Programs and No on the Massie amendment cutting Foreign Military Financing. The grounding for each sits in the record section.
  • [Position, 2024-05-09] Joint statement with Chairman McCaul against the pause on weapons shipments, per Yellowhammer News: "We are appalled that the administration paused crucial arms shipments to Israel. Withholding arms to Israel weakens Israel’s deterrence against Iran and its proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah". The same page carries Senator Tuberville’s separate remarks; the headline’s "worst kind of betrayal" is not attributed to Rogers and is not used.
  • [Position, 2026-06-03] His defense of Section 224 of the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act, carried by JNS and Yellowhammer News: "Israel is far and away the best ally the United States has in the Middle East", with his argument that the cooperative programs strengthen U.S. security. Both pages open and carry the quote.
  • [Position, 2026-06-05] Under his committee’s mark, the FY27 bill authorized $750 million for U.S.–Israel cooperative programs, a $65 million increase, including $500 million for missile defense, per the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s own release. The lobby’s own page, stated as such; the defensive-systems itemization stays off the front of the card.
  • [Position, 2024-10-18] The bipartisan delegation to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, per Representative Panetta’s release, which names him; the delegation met Prime Minister Netanyahu and discussed security assistance and humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza.
  • [Position, 2024-04, reported, uncorroborated] An advocacy tracker’s page (Bought by Zionism) attributes to him an April 2024 statement, "As both an American and a Christian, I believe in defending freedom - especially when it comes to Israel...", alongside a note that Alabama facilities produce Iron Dome components. An adversary tracker’s attribution, marked uncorroborated by our research’s own check; reported here, not adopted, and not quoted on the card.
  • [Position, 2024-04-15] After Iran’s April 2024 missile and drone attack he urged a stronger U.S. posture alongside Israel, per Yellowhammer News. Iran material stays off the front of the card.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located as a position of his own at any date. The October 2024 delegation discussed humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza as part of its agenda, per the Panetta release above.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [Reaction window, 2023-10-07] His office’s statement on the day of the attack, on his own site: Israel "has the right to defend itself against attacks on its people", "this barbaric attack will not go unanswered", and "The U.S. will continue to support our ally through robust security assistance which Israel utilizes in its self-defense". Not on the card summary.
  • [Reaction window, 2023-10-10] His call for the United States to leave the United Nations after the Human Rights Council’s moment of silence for "innocent lives" in "occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere" did not name Israeli victims, per Yellowhammer News. Not on the card summary.
  • [Position, 2025-02-12] At a House Armed Services Committee hearing he characterized Iran and its proxy network as the region’s key destabilizers, per the research record of the hearing. Iran material, research page only; the hearing transcript was not separately retrieved and nothing from it is quoted.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Prior, 2019-03-27] "I will always stand with Israel and against anti-Semitism in whatever form it takes", in Alabama Political Reporter’s coverage of Republican calls to remove Representative Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The page opens and carries the quote.
  • [Prior, 2015-02-06] His support for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress, calling Israel’s importance "religious, historic, defense-related", per Alabama Political Reporter; the research marks the piece uncorroborated and it was not re-retrieved, so the wording is carried here as our research.
  • [Prior, 2021-07-06] His accusation that Democrats failed to stand with Israel during the May 2021 escalation, per Alabama Political Reporter; carried as our research, not quoted on the card.
  • Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • [Prior, 2019-03-27] From the same verified 2019 piece: antisemitism "has bled into the halls of Congress by liberal Democrats, and it is simply unacceptable".
  • [Reaction window, 2023-12-05/07] His amplification of criticism after the university-presidents hearing and his "proud to stand with my colleagues" statement on the Israel-related House measures, per Yellowhammer News. Not on the card summary.

Identity note

  • The research’s own disambiguation separated him from former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, the 2024/2026 Michigan Senate candidate; the two namesake sources it cited feed only that note and nothing else in this record.

Race and status context

  • Sitting member and committee chairman, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.

Also in this race

  1. ? Victor Lee McInnis (Democrat)

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