Jeff Hurd

Hurd voted against both amendments cutting aid and in 2025 met Netanyahu on a trip organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In 2024 he backed continued aid to Israel and, on aid for Gaza, would have to know how it would be used “before I would support it.”

Hurd represents Colorado’s 3rd District, the Western Slope, and is the sitting member, first elected in 2024.

His recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card: he took office after the 2024 aid packages, and his two recorded votes are against the amendment striking Israeli Cooperative Programs funding and against the 2026 amendment barring FY27 funds, both on the support side. In August 2025 he joined Republican lawmakers meeting Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel on a trip organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, reported locally in a sharply critical opinion column whose criticisms are its author’s and are not adopted here.

In the Colorado Sun’s September 2024 candidate guide, read by a volunteer in its interactive form, he said the Biden administration’s initial response to the Hamas attack was good, “I just wish that they would actually follow up,” called the holdup of aid to Israel authorized by Congress wrong, and supported continued aid to Israel; on aid for Gaza he would have to know how it would be used “before I would support it.”

During the June 2025 Israel-Iran exchanges he said America stands with its ally; Iran material stays off this card’s front and the fuller quotes are on the research page. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians beyond the conditional guide answer.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 2 of 2 recorded votes.

Research

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

His recorded votes appear as badges on this card: No on the FY26 amendment striking $500M for Israeli Cooperative Programs, and No on the 2026 Massie amendment. He took office in January 2025, after the 2024 aid packages.
[Position, 2024-09-30, read by a volunteer] The Colorado Sun’s Frisch-Hurd issues guide, in its interactive form: he supports continued aid to Israel, called the holdup of congressionally authorized aid to Israel wrong, and said of aid for Gaza that he would have to know how it would be used “before I would support it.” He also said the Biden administration’s initial response to the Hamas attack was good: “I just wish that they would actually follow up.” The page’s plain rendering does not display the section; a volunteer read it in the guide’s own interface in September 2026 and transcribed these answers.
[Position, 2025-08-12] The AIPAC-organized trip and Netanyahu meeting, per a local opinion column; the trip facts are used, the column’s criticisms (International Criminal Court findings, Gaza medical accounts) are the author’s own and are labelled as such.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

The conditional guide answer above is the only located material: he would have to know how aid for Gaza would be used “before I would support it.”

Characterization of the conflict

[Position, 2025-06-13] On the Israel-Iran exchanges, per Colorado Politics: America "stands with" its ally Israel, which has "every right to defend itself", with "We pray for peace, but we recognize the reality of evil in the world". Iran-war context; research page.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

[Endorsement, 2026] The Republican Jewish Coalition’s endorsement in its battleground slate; the endorser’s own page. Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

Co-sponsorship of the Boulder-attack resolution appears in the research record via colleagues’ releases; his own words on it were not located.

Race and status context

Sitting member, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.