But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Dale Strong
- Backed with $20K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
- Sits on House Appropriations
Strong backs aid to the government of Israel while opposing Ukraine aid. Announcing his April 2024 votes he said “we cannot abandon one of our greatest allies”, having called the Israel package “the first thing that ought to be approved”. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians.
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Deep Dive
Strong represents Alabama’s 5th District, Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley, and is the sitting member.
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, while he voted against the Ukraine portion of the April 2024 packages. His release on those votes said: "In the face of evils like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Ayatollah regime, we cannot abandon one of our greatest allies like the radical left would have us do." The same release grounds his support in his district’s defense economy (Redstone Arsenal’s role in joint U.S.-Israel programs), which is itemized on the research page. Days earlier, in a Newsmax appearance reported by 1819 News, he had urged the Senate to pass the House’s $14 billion Israel aid package: “That's the first thing that ought to be approved — approve that $14 billion for Israel.”
His emergency-aid statement from November 2023 is on the research page, as are two 2026 statements whose only sources are other people’s social-media accounts so they are not used here.
Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians at any date.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
House Committee on Appropriations
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
$20K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
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, with a No on the Ukraine portion of the April 2024 packages; the grounding for each sits in the record section.
- [Position, 2024-04-20] His release on the April 2024 votes, quoted on the card. The page also states: "Israel and North Alabama have a long history, with the Missile Defense Agency on Redstone Arsenal being critical to the joint Israeli-U.S. development of the Iron Dome and David’s Sling missile defense systems." Defensive-systems detail stays off the front of the card. Verified against his own site.
- [Position, 2024-04-15] 1819 News’s report of his Newsmax appearance during Iran’s April 2024 attack on Israel: he urged the Senate to pass the House’s $14 billion Israel aid package, “That's the first thing that ought to be approved — approve that $14 billion for Israel.” Verified verbatim on the page; quoted on the card. The Iran context stays off the front.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] His emergency-aid release: "Israel is the United States’ most strategic ally in the Middle East and has a right to defend its sovereignty...", with the line "Iranian-backed Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists are going to continue to feel the heat of Huntsville". Not on the card summary; our research recorded the wording.
- [Position, 2025-03-31, single source] A radio interview on the proposed "Golden Dome" initiative, positioning Redstone Arsenal for future joint air-defense work, per Yellowhammer News. Defensive-systems and single-source; research page only.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-04-15] In the same 1819 News report he warned “If we don't make some changes here in America, it's going to be the same thing,” tying the threats Israel faces to the U.S. southern border. Verified verbatim; the page is dated 2024-04-15.
- [Position, 2025-10-07, unopenable source] A two-year-anniversary statement reported as "The U.S. stands firmly with Israel against those who seek its destruction", per local coverage that answers Access Denied to every attempt. What our research found; nothing quoted on the card. It is not yet confirmed.
- [Excluded, misattributed sources] A February 2026 Iran condemnation and a March 2026 criticism of restraint advocates are attributed to him by the research, but the cited sources are a television station’s Facebook post and, for both, **other politicians’ own accounts** (Senator Cotton’s and Chairman McCaul’s pages). Those pages carry those men’s words, not Strong’s. Excluded entirely; Iran material would stay out of the card summary in any case.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
- An adversary tracker (Reverse Canary Mission) keeps a page on him; it is a tracker’s compilation and nothing is adopted from it.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- A "Confronting the escalating threat of antisemitism" op-ed appears in the research record on three Alabama outlets, but none of the retrieved copies shows his byline; attribution unestablished, nothing claimed (same finding as on his AL-04 colleague’s card).
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Andrew Sneed (Democrat)
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