But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Austin Rogers
Republican · U.S. House, Florida District 2
✗SupportsFrom their own words
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.
No recorded votes on the bills we track. In their own words on September 7, 2026.
Rogers' campaign platform carries a plank headed Standing Up for Israel. It says “the United States must continue providing critical support” to the government of Israel, and names no weapons system, no dollar figure and no bill. He has not held office.
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Austin Rogers is the Republican nominee in Florida's 2nd District, the North Florida seat that runs from Panama City east past Tallahassee. He is a Panama City attorney and was General Counsel to Senator Rick Scott. He won an eight-candidate Republican primary on August 18, 2026 with 30.3 percent of the vote and faces Amanda Marie Green on November 3 for the seat Neal Dunn is leaving after five terms.
That is the whole of it. He has never held elected office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his. Thirty-one posts on his campaign site were read, dated January to August 2026, and none of them is about this subject; the two reported primary debates covered tariffs, fuel prices, the size of government, term limits and his residency; and he has not filled in Ballotpedia's candidate questionnaire.
The money
Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found
2026 support from the five lobbying groups we track
Nothing recorded (as of 2026-09-27) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
“the United States does not get dragged into anything we do not want to get dragged into. President Trump does not get dragged into anything that he does not want to get dragged into.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless the entry says otherwise. His whole campaign site was read, including all thirty-one posts on it. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. He has never held office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his, and no funding from the committees this site tracks is recorded on this record.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
[Position, read 2026-09-07] His campaign platform, at rogersforflorida.com/issues, carries fourteen planks. The thirteenth is headed “Standing Up for Israel” and reads in full: “America has a strong ally in Israel. Austin believes the United States must continue providing critical support as Israel faces ongoing threats from Iran, Hamas, and other hostile actors in the Middle East. Austin also believes the United States must stand firmly against antisemitism wherever it exists — at home and abroad. He has overseen hearings and reports on antisemitism in the United States Senate.” The page carries no date and is banded to the date it was read.
Nothing more specific located, at any date. No statement by him about an arms transfer, a weapons shipment, Foreign Military Financing, a dollar figure, a condition on aid, or any bill on those subjects was found on his campaign site, in his thirty-one campaign posts, or in any of the reports read for this card.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date. Neither his campaign site nor any coverage read mentions Gaza humanitarian funding, UNRWA or the aid pipeline.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2026-04-23] The Floridian's interview with him, by Grayson Bakich, published on April 23, 2026 on the page's own record. Its subject is the conflict with Iran. The report says he “discussed the ongoing conflict with Iran, the United States' relationship with Israel, and the surge in antisemitism with The Floridian, countering the narrative that President Donald Trump is doing Israel's bidding.” It quotes him saying “Nothing indicates to me that this is going to be a forever war. All signs indicate that it is going to be limited in scope and duration”, and that President Trump has “proven time and again that he can be limited in scope and duration. He can be surgical in other contexts, and I do not see any reason not to trust him.” It also quotes him saying “Israel is a strategic ally and partner” and that Israel is taking the opportunity to “cut the head off the snake of terrorism”. The sentence describing Iran as the number one state sponsor of terrorism and as pursuing nuclear weapons sits outside the quotation marks and is the reporter's summary.
Nothing located from him, at any date, on Gaza, on Palestinian statehood, on a two-state framework, on territorial boundaries, or on the words genocide, apartheid, self-defense or terrorism as applied to the war in Gaza.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2026-04-23] In the same interview he rejected the argument that the United States is being drawn into a war on the government of Israel's behalf: “the United States does not get dragged into anything we do not want to get dragged into. President Trump does not get dragged into anything that he does not want to get dragged into.”
Nothing located, at any date, on pro-Israel lobbying organizations, on political money connected to them, or on foreign agent registration.
Safety and antisemitism
[Position, read 2026-09-07] The campaign plank quoted above: the United States “must stand firmly against antisemitism wherever it exists — at home and abroad”, and “He has overseen hearings and reports on antisemitism in the United States Senate.” No hearing and no report is named on the page, and none was identified for this card.
[Position, 2026-04-23] In The Floridian interview he called the rise of antisemitism an example of horseshoe theory. Quoted: “You see it on the very, very far right and the very, very far left,” and, after the reporter's “he continued, suggesting”, “I think you see it more on the left. I think you see it dividing the Democratic Party more than you see it dividing the Republican Party.” He also said the rise in antisemitism “hinges on specific influential figures, like [Nick] Fuentes, and maybe a lot of younger people cotton to them and just hear their narrative and become interested in it.” The square brackets around Nick are the outlet's.
What else his campaign site says
[Read 2026-09-07] The issues page carries fourteen planks: working with President Trump, freedom of faith and speech, family values, abortion, the economy and jobs, the military and veterans, border security, the Second Amendment, the Constitution, child safety online and the SAFE KIDS Act, competing with China on artificial intelligence, digital assets and cryptocurrency, Standing Up for Israel, and health. The home page, the endorsements page, the updates page and the media page were read as well.
[Read 2026-09-07] All thirty-one posts published on the site between January 29 and August 13, 2026 were read. None is about Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid or antisemitism. Iran appears in five of them, always as a subject in itself: a June 17, 2026 post about China opens by saying attention has been on Iran, and a surrogacy bill he helped draft is described as covering China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.
The race
[Read 2026-09-07] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Florida's 2nd District records that Amanda Green and Austin Rogers are running in the general election on November 3, 2026, and that Rogers took 24,799 votes, 30.3 percent, in an eight-candidate Republican primary on August 18, 2026. Neal Dunn, the sitting member, is not seeking re-election.
[Read 2026-09-07] His Ballotpedia page records that he has not completed Ballotpedia's 2026 Candidate Connection survey.
[Position, 2026-05-19] WFSU's report of the Capital Tiger Bay Club debate among six of the Republican candidates records what they argued about: tariffs, fuel and consumer prices, the size of the federal government, term limits, and a challenge to Rogers' residency. Israel, Gaza and foreign aid appear nowhere in it. The Bay County Republican Party debate was reported the same way.
Not on the card, and why
The Iran material in The Floridian interview, including the forever-war answer and the remark about cutting the head off the snake of terrorism. It is quoted in full above. The question this site asks is about U.S. weapons and money for the government of Israel, and remarks about Iran are not an answer to it.
The reporter's summary describing Iran as the number one state sponsor of terrorism and as pursuing nuclear weapons. It is the outlet's sentence rather than his quoted words, and it is about Iran.
The domestic material on his campaign site and in his campaign posts. Out of scope, and listed above so the absence is checkable.
His endorsements, which are other people's recommendations rather than statements by him.
Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)
All thirty-one posts published on rogersforflorida.com (opened; 2026-09-07)
https://floridianpress.com/2026/04/austin-rogers-slams-narrative-that-trump-is-pushing-u-s-into-another-forever-war/ (opened; 2026-09-07; published 2026-04-23)
https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2026-05-19/republican-candidates-for-floridas-second-congressional-district-find-much-to-agree-on (opened; 2026-09-07; published 2026-05-19)
https://news.wfsu.org/2026-election-coverage/2026-08-18/austin-rogers-secures-republican-nomination-for-district-two-congressional-seat (opened; 2026-09-07; published 2026-08-18)
https://www.wjhg.com/2026/05/01/republican-candidates-debate-congressional-district-2-primary/ (opened; 2026-09-07; published 2026-05-01)
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/814735-austin-rogers-emerges-as-republican-nominee-to-succeed-neal-dunn-in-congress/ (could not open; 2026-09-07)
https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/austin-rogers (could not open; 2026-09-07)
https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/austin-rogers/positions/14d8448d-55fa-44db-b0b5-7fd4611cd9ed (could not open; 2026-09-07)
https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-news/austin-rogers-gives-victory-speech-after-winning-gop-primary-for-florida-congressional-district-2/ (could not open; 2026-09-07)
His campaign's social accounts, which were not read for this card: https://x.com/rogersforfl , https://truthsocial.com/@rogersforfl , https://www.facebook.com/austin.rogers.792/ , https://www.instagram.com/rogersforfl , https://www.youtube.com/@rogersforfl
This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-07, not a claim that no other statement exists anywhere.
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