Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra (D) — former U.S. Representative (1993–2017), California Attorney General (2017–2021) and U.S. HHS Secretary (2021–2025) — advanced from California's June 2, 2026 top-two primary to the November general election. His clearest in-scope record is congressional: on Sept. 13, 2016, as a U.S. Representative, he voted Yea on H.Res.729, expressing support for finalizing a new, robust, long-term U.S.–Israel Memorandum of Understanding on military assistance (agreed to under suspension, 405–4). As a 2026 gubernatorial candidate he has courted Jewish voters — speaking at a May 6, 2025 Jewish Public Affairs Committee gathering in Sacramento — but he did not attend the Feb. 26, 2026 Jewish California candidate forum where rivals pledged to fight the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (boycott-divestment-sanctions) movement. As of July 24, 2026, no located dated statement by Becerra specifically addresses conditioning or restricting U.S. weapons/aid to Israel, Gaza leverage, or UNRWA; a widely circulated social-media claim attributing to him a remark tying U.S. 'billions to Israel for bombs' to the absence of single-payer health care could not be verified against any primary or credible news source. This record is documented honestly as thin on aid-conditioning specifics.
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