But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
French Hill
- Backed with $25K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
Hill’s votes on the Israel aid bills all point the same way; announcing his April 2024 vote he called Israel "our strongest Middle East ally". With Representative Gottheimer he led 51 members urging sanctions on UN Palestinian-refugee agency employees involved in the October 7 attacks.
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Deep Dive
Hill represents Arkansas’s 2nd District, Little Rock and central Arkansas, 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. His statement on the April 2024 package framed the vote around adversaries pressing U.S. allies, calling Israel "our strongest Middle East ally"; the release’s fuller sentence leads with Iran and is on the research page, as is a December 2025 defense-bill item about Arkansas manufacturing of missile-defense interceptors.
On the aid-to-Palestinians side of the ledger his recorded action runs through the United Nations: in May 2024 he and Representative Gottheimer led a bipartisan letter of 51 members urging the Treasury and State Departments to designate and sanction employees of UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian-refugee agency, involved in the October 7 attacks. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid funding beyond that.
His statements from the weeks after the October 2023 attack, including his support for the first standalone aid bill, are on the research page.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
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
$25K 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, including No on both amendments to cut aid to Israel; the grounding for each sits in the record section.
- [Position, 2024-04-20] His release on the April 2024 votes, verified: "...Iran and Iran-backed terror groups are relentless in their attacks against our strongest Middle East ally, Israel." The card quotes the ally clause; the sentence’s Iran lead stays off the front under the standing rule.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] His statement on H.R. 6126: "Israel is our strongest Middle East ally and needs our assistance now more than ever...". Not on the card summary; our research recorded the wording.
- [Reported, uncorroborated] The research reports he co-sponsored H.R. 8369 (the Israel Security Assistance Support Act); no source corroborates the co-sponsorship. His recorded YES vote on that bill is a badge regardless, so nothing turns on it; not claimed.
- [Position, 2025-12-21] A defense-bill item on expanding East Camden, Arkansas production of Iron Dome interceptors, per our research of his newsletter. Defensive-systems detail; research page only.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Position, 2024-05-16] The Gottheimer-Hill letter of 51 members urging designation and sanction of UNRWA employees involved in the October 7 attacks. Verified against Representative Gottheimer’s release, which names Hill as co-lead. A U.S.-money-through-the-UN position, stated as what it is; nothing located addresses U.S. humanitarian funding more broadly.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-07] His statement on the attack: an "egregious, barbaric" attack by an "Iranian-backed terror group". Not on the card summary; our research recorded the wording.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-17] Co-introduction of the hostages resolution. Not on the card summary.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2024-07-17] Participation in the Congressional Solidarity Sabbath initiative, per the Lantos Foundation. Context.
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
- An adversary tracker (Reverse Canary Mission) keeps a page on him; nothing adopted.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- The Solidarity Sabbath item above; nothing further located in the position band.
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Chris Jones (Democrat)
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