But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check

Jeff Hurd

Republican · U.S. House, Colorado District 3
✗Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes

Asked in 2024 about continued military funding for the government of Israel, Hurd said he supports continued aid; on aid for Gaza he would have to know how it would be used “before I would support it.” In August 2025 he visited Israel with AIPAC's education foundation.

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Deep Dive

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 for the government of Israel, both on the support side. In August 2025 he visited Israel with 20 Republican colleagues on a trip with the American Israel Education Foundation, and AIPAC thanked him by name in a post. AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is a pro-Israel lobbying group, and the foundation is its sister organization for educational work, which takes members of Congress to Israel. A local opinion column reported that he was among the Republican lawmakers who met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the trip.

The Colorado Sun’s 2024 candidate guide, published that September, asked "Do you support continued military funding for Israel? What about humanitarian aid for Gaza?" He said he supports continued aid to the government of Israel, and that on aid for Gaza he would have to know how it would be used “before I would support it.” He said the Biden administration’s initial response to the Hamas attack was good: “I just wish that they would actually follow up.” He called the holdup of congressionally authorized aid to the government of Israel wrong.

During the June 2025 Israel-Iran exchanges he said America stands with its ally; his fuller remarks are on the research page. Nothing located has him addressing U.S. aid to Palestinians beyond the conditional guide answer.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes

Floor votes
H.Amdt. 55 to H.R. 4016 - strike $500M for Israeli Cooperative Programs2025-07-18 · Failed 6-422 (only 6 voted to cut)
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
H.R. 8595 - Massie amendment (Part A No. 8) to bar FY27 funds for Israel and cut $3.3B in Foreign Military Financing2026-07-15 · Failed 104-314
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
Bill sponsorship
H.R. 3565 - Block the Bombs ActWould bar transfer of 2,000-lb/BLU-109 bunker busters, JDAMs, 120mm tank rounds, and 155mm artillery shells to Israel. Does not affect Iron
Not sponsoringhas not backed this restriction bill
H.R. 1229 - United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025Formalizes/expands bilateral defense cooperation with Israel.
Co-sponsorbacks this bill to send more support
Notable actions

• Vote record imported from official House Clerk roll calls for H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, and H.R. 8369. Other position fields remain under investigation.

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 2 of 2 tracked votes.)

The money

$8K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track

Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $5,000 · Republican Jewish Coalition: $2,500
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
AIPAC$5,000The American Israel Public Affairs Committee; its PAC backs candidates it sees as strengthening U.S. ties with the government of Israel, including continued U.S. military aid.Republican Jewish Coalition$2,500The Republican Jewish Coalition's PAC; it financially supports Republican candidates who reflect its priorities, including strong U.S. backing of the government of Israel.Direct contributions and independent expenditures supporting this candidate from the five lobbying groups we track, every cycle each has filed, through 2026. Excludes earmarked and conduit contributions.
Endorsed by AIPAC
AIPACThe American Israel Public Affairs Committee; its PAC backs candidates it sees as strengthening U.S. ties with the government of Israel, including continued U.S. military aid.These endorsements come from groups that back sending U.S. weapons and funding to the government of Israel.

In their words

Endorsements

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 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] The Colorado Sun’s Frisch-Hurd issues guide asked both candidates "Do you support continued military funding for Israel? What about humanitarian aid for Gaza?" Its entry for him, in the guide’s answer table, reads: he "supports continued aid to Israel, but said that he would have to know how the aid for Gaza would be used" and quotes him: “before I would support it.” On the Biden administration’s handling of the war, the table says he thinks its initial response to the attack by Hamas was good, and quotes him: “I just wish that they would actually follow up.” It adds that he said the holdup of aid to Israel authorized by Congress is wrong.
  • [Position, 2025-08-07] AIPAC’s video of August 7, 2025 says: "Rep. Jeff Hurd, along with 20 Republican members of Congress, are in Israel with the American Israel Education Foundation." Its post the same day reads: "This week @housegop is in Israel with AIEF to see the Jewish state firsthand, meet with top officials across the political spectrum" and "Thank you @RepJeffHurd!" The American Israel Education Foundation is AIPAC’s sister organization for educational work, which runs trips to Israel for members of Congress (Wikipedia).
  • [Position, 2025-08-12] A local opinion column in the Pagosa Daily Post reported that he "was among a group of Republican lawmakers who recently met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel" and that the trip "was organized by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)". The column’s criticisms (International Criminal Court findings, Gaza medical accounts) are its author’s own.

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, 2024-09-18] The Republican Jewish Coalition, which says it seeks to "foster and enhance ties between the American Jewish community and Republican decision-makers" (about page), endorsed him on September 18, 2024, as a challenger, one of nine House battleground candidates. 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.

Not on the card, and why

  • The opinion column’s account of a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu: a third party speaking about him; attributed in the deep dive, not on the front. AIPAC’s own video and post, which confirm the trip, carry the front.
  • The June 2025 remarks on the Israel-Iran exchanges: about Iran; in the deep dive only as a pointer.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Dwayne Romero (Democrat)
  2. – Cory Robertson (Libertarian)
  3. ✓ Clifton Brown (Other)

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