But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Steve Womack
- Backed with $28K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
- Sits on House Appropriations
Womack voted for the Israel aid bills and against cutting that aid; when shipments were paused in 2024 he backed the bill forcing their release: "Withholding weapons from Israel abandons our greatest ally in the Middle East as they fight for survival." Nothing located has him addressing aid to Palestinians.
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Deep Dive
Womack represents Arkansas’s 3rd District, the state’s northwest corner, and is the sitting member and a senior appropriator.
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 certain weapons shipments in May 2024, he co-sponsored the measure to force their release, and his release said: "Withholding weapons from Israel abandons our greatest ally in the Middle East as they fight for survival. It emboldens murderous terrorists and postures America as weak and unreliable."
His support predates this war: the research records a 2021 letter urging no conditions on aid and 2021 floor remarks for Iron Dome funding, both on the research page in their own band, along with his welcome of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s July 2024 address, reported by Little Rock public radio.
Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians at any date. His statements from the weeks after the October 2023 attack are on the research page.
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
$28K 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; the grounding for each sits in the record section.
- [Position, 2024-05-16] His release on the shipment-release bill, quoted on the card; verified against his own site (the page titles him a co-sponsor and carries the full statement).
- [Position, 2024-04-20, reported] Floor remarks on the April 2024 package ("America is safer when our allies and partners are safe", with a note that funded munitions are made in Arkansas) are our research; the release page retrieved for them carries a different statement, so the floor wording is not quoted on the card.
- [Prior, 2021-05-20] A letter urging the administration to put no conditions on aid, per our research. Prior band.
- [Prior, 2021-09-23] Floor remarks for Iron Dome supplemental funding ("has no offensive capability"). Prior band; defensive-systems detail stays off the front.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] Original co-sponsorship of H.R. 6126 with a statement calling the aid "the most important thing we can do right now for Israel and our national security", per our research. Not on the card summary.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-25] House passage of a resolution supporting Israel he co-sponsored. Not on the card summary.
- [Position, 2024-07-29] His approval of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress, per UA Little Rock Public Radio. Opens and names him.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
- Three YouTube addresses were offered and not watched; nothing claimed from them. It is not yet confirmed.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Nothing 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
- ✓Opposes Robb Ryerse (Democrat)
- –Research Underway Bobby Wilson (Libertarian)
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