Brian Mast

Deep Dive

Brian Mast has represented Florida's 21st District since 2017, with district offices in Port St. Lucie, Stuart, Jupiter and Fort Pierce, and has chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee since January 2025. He served more than twelve years in the U.S. Army, worked as a bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan and lost both legs there, and after leaving the Army volunteered to serve alongside the Israel Defense Forces. He is in his fifth term and is running again on November 3, 2026 against the Democrat James Martin and Alexander Cooke, who has no party affiliation; David Fabrikant is a write-in candidate.

On what the United States should send the government of Israel, his official issues page is unambiguous: he writes that he is “committed to expanding America’s security assistance to Israel”. When the Biden administration paused a shipment of munitions in the spring of 2024, he said the administration was “sanctioning our biggest ally in all but name”. He wrote days later that the President “slapped an embargo on delivering precision weapons to Israel” and described the bill he had cosponsored to end it: “Our bill gives the White House a 15-DAY DEADLINE to transfer the withheld weapons or Congress will suspend funding for the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and the national security council.” A month earlier, as the House took up the supplemental, he had written that “Since October 7, Congress has not sent any additional aid to Israel” and that he had proposed sending it within thirty days.

On American money for Palestinians he has written bills as well as statements, and they all point the same way. On January 30, 2024 he introduced a bill to disband the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the agency that runs schools, clinics and emergency aid for Palestinian refugees, and to move its work to the United Nations refugee agency. He said of it: “It masquerades as a relief organization while building the infrastructure to support Hamas. It is indoctrinating Palestinian children to hate all Jews and filling the future ranks of jihadists. It is literally funneling American tax dollars to terrorism.” In May 2024 he and Rep. Josh Gottheimer introduced a second bill directing the State Department to recover the money already sent to the agency. In June 2024 the House adopted his amendment prohibiting American tax dollars from building or rebuilding anything in the Gaza Strip. He said: “even one penny of American tax dollars used to build or rebuild infrastructure in Gaza will just be going to subsidize the next attack on Israel”. He had earlier introduced a bill to stop the American pier being built off Gaza and, on the Israel supplemental, offered amendments to eliminate the refugee agency, to bar funds supporting a Palestinian state and, in his own heading, to leave “Not one penny to rebuild Gaza”.

As chairman he has carried the same argument into the committee's work. In May 2026 he introduced the Foreign Military Financing Loan Authorization Act, which would let the State Department provide military financing as loans and loan guarantees rather than only as grants; at the markup he said the program “has historically been provided to our foreign partners and allies on a non-repayable grant basis” and that the country needs terms “more attractive to current and future recipients”. Neither release names Israel, which is the largest recipient of that account, and he has said nothing about what the change would mean for it. In January 2025 the House passed his bill sanctioning International Criminal Court officials who pursue Israeli leaders. In February 2025 he sent the committee's Republican staff a memo, which his office confirmed and which Responsible Statecraft quotes, directing them to call the West Bank Judea and Samaria in the committee's formal correspondence.

He is equally plain about how he sees the war. The New Republic and the Daily Beast both reported that when activists from the anti-war group CodePink confronted him outside his office in late January 2024 and asked about pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza, he said “These are not innocent Palestinian civilians”, and, told that much of Gaza's infrastructure had been destroyed, “And there’s more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed”. He calls support for a Palestinian state “delusional”, and when France and then Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom recognized one he called it “empty virtue signaling that only rewards the Hamas butchers and rapists”.

His statements about Iran, his work on antisemitism, the sanctions bills he has written, his record from the autumn of 2023 and the rest of what our research found are on his research page.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes · Backs 0 of 1 tracked bills to restrict weapons transfers

House Committee on Foreign Affairs

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.

Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-18 unless the entry says otherwise. His congressional newsroom was read in full: the 525 items in the press release archive and the whole of the Israel-tagged index his own site keeps, 98 items running from January 2017 to October 2025, each one checked against this subject. The House Foreign Affairs Committee newsroom he now runs was read back through 610 items, and everything of his in scope is here. His campaign site was read in full. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. His recorded House votes and the tracked funding totals are shown in this card's record section and are not restated here.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

• [Position; the page is undated and was read 2026-09-18] His official issues page on Israel: “In Congress, I am dedicated to advancing policies to embrace the Israeli people as our friends with my pro-Israel colleagues on both sides of the aisle. I am committed to expanding America’s security assistance to Israel.” The same page describes his volunteer service with the Israel Defense Forces, opposes the boycott movement, and refers to the Obama administration in the present tense, so the text appears to have been written early in his tenure; it is live on his site today and is recorded on the date we read it.
• [Position, 2024-05-05] His statement on reports that the administration had halted a transfer of ammunition: “Joe Biden is sanctioning our biggest ally in all but name. The White House is doing this while actively working to rebuild the infrastructure in Gaza that Hamas will use to launch another attack on Israel. Making Israel a sitting duck for Hamas and Iran — who both have also shown a willingness to attack U.S. troops — is not in the interests of America’s national security.”
• [Position, 2024-05-08] His statement on the President's threat to withhold weapons if Israeli forces entered Rafah. His quoted words are about hostages, campus protests and the President, and end: “Hamas and any person in Gaza who supports them is America’s enemy and President Biden is proudly threatening to give aid and comfort to our enemy.”
• [Position, 2024-05-16] His blog post on the bill to end the pause: “Biden said his commitment to Israel was ‘ironclad.’ But then he turned around and slapped an embargo on delivering precision weapons to Israel just as they appeared to have Hamas sequestered in Rafah. Biden willfully flouted the law with this decision because Congress voted to send those weapons to Israel.” And: “This week, House Republicans passed bipartisan legislation forcing Biden to lift the embargo. Our bill gives the White House a 15-DAY DEADLINE to transfer the withheld weapons or Congress will suspend funding for the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and the national security council.” And: “Outside of cutting off weapons to Israel, Biden wants to use YOUR tax dollars to rebuild infrastructure in Gaza that will just be used by Hamas to launch attacks on innocent Israeli citizens.” And: “I’m fighting to ensure NOT ONE penny of America’s tax dollars goes to benefit Hamas.” GovTrack's cosponsor list for that bill, H.R. 8369, records him as an original cosponsor.
• [Position, 2024-04-19] His blog post as the House took up the Israel supplemental. On the four amendments he offered: “Eliminate UNRWA”; “No funds to support a Palestinian state”; “Not one penny to rebuild Gaza”; and “Send the aid immediately”, of which he wrote “Since October 7, Congress has not sent any additional aid to Israel. I proposed that we send aid in the next 30 days so that our ally can continue to defend itself from Hamas.” The same post says: “It is clear that Israel is our ally and the Palestinians are not.”
• [Position, 2024-02-07] His blog post after a second Israel aid bill failed in the House: “This week, the House once again voted on a bill to send aid to Israel, but even before the House voted on this bill, President Biden announced he would VETO it if it passed. Then, Democrats in D.C. proceeded to kill the bill.”
• [Position, 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-13] His Foreign Military Financing Loan Authorization Act of 2026 and the committee markup that advanced it. The bill would authorize the Secretary of State to issue military financing loans and loan guarantees, set flexible terms, and use foreign military sales administrative fees to pay for the work. He is quoted on introduction: “America produces the most lethal, effective weapons and military equipment without exception. Our partners look first to America as the partner of choice because there is no comparison. This bill would ensure we continue to arm our partners and allies under terms that put America first.” At the markup: “Foreign Military Financing has historically been provided to our foreign partners and allies on a non-repayable grant basis. While this is positive for our industries and military interoperability, we also need to be able to offer financing terms that are more attractive to current and future recipients. This legislation gives the State Department a powerful tool to compete aggressively in the global defense market and ensure that when allies buy, they buy American.” Israel is the largest recipient of that account and is named nowhere in either release, and no statement of his about what the change would mean for the money the United States sends the government of Israel was located.
• [Position, 2026-02-09] He and Rep. Ryan Zinke welcomed the executive order establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy. His quoted words are about the American defense industrial base and name no recipient country. Rep. Zinke's words in the same release are his. The release lists the committee's arms sales bills, among them the Abraham Accords Defense Against Terror Act.
• [Position, read 2026-09-18] His campaign site's Israel page: “I introduced and passed legislation to combat radical Islamic terrorism, cut off U.S. aid funds being used to reward anti-Israel terrorists, increase U.S. – Israel joint missile defense activities and more.” And: “Now, as Chairman of this important committee, I will do everything within my power to support President Trump’s remarkable efforts in the Middle East and our ally Israel!” Joint missile defense is kept off the fifty-word front by standing rule and is recorded here with no prejudice.
• [Earlier record, 2017-05-08 and 2017-07-14] He and Rep. Gottheimer announced a United States-Israel Joint Missile Defense Act, and reported its passage in that year's defense authorization. History, recorded here.
• Nothing located in which he discusses the dollar figure in the United States and Israel memorandum of understanding, or any condition on it, and nothing in which he speaks about either of the 2026 amendments to cut that aid on which his votes are recorded.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

• [Position, 2024-01-30] His bill to disband the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and transfer its refugee work to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and to withhold federal funding from countries that refuse to support that policy. He is quoted: “UNRWA is a front, plain and simple.” And, after the attribution: “It masquerades as a relief organization while building the infrastructure to support Hamas. It is indoctrinating Palestinian children to hate all Jews and filling the future ranks of jihadists. It is literally funneling American tax dollars to terrorism. And now we know with certainty that a significant part of the UNRWA workforce are members of Palestinian terrorist organizations, including participants in the October 7th attack. No more. The United States must lead the effort to permanently disband UNRWA and end its nurturing of terrorism.” The release also records that he had introduced a bill to return to the policy of prohibiting funds being deployed to Palestinian-controlled areas. His blog post the same day sets out the same case.
• [Position, 2024-05-07] His bill with Rep. Josh Gottheimer directing the Secretary of State to recover funds already disbursed to that agency: “For way too long, UNRWA has masqueraded as a relief organization, while in reality serving as an incubator for Palestinian terrorists.” And, after the attribution: “It’s ludicrous that our hard-earned American tax dollars were going to fund this crap. The State Department needs to do everything it can to recoup this money.” He wrote about the committee advancing it in July 2024: “Empowering UNRWA has empowered Hamas.” And about the committee's debate: “At this point, any American tax dollar that goes to UNRWA is going straight into the hands of Hamas.”
• [Position, 2024-06-12 and 2024-06-13] The House adopted his amendment to the defense authorization prohibiting American tax dollars from going to build or rebuild anything within the Gaza Strip: “Any group that takes control of the Gaza Strip following this war will have ties to terrorism and be opposed to the existence of our ally — Israel. Given this reality, even one penny of American tax dollars used to build or rebuild infrastructure in Gaza will just be going to subsidize the next attack on Israel. Our tax dollars should be going to support our allies, not terrorist entities holding American citizens hostage.” His blog post the next day adds: “This week, Secretary Blinken announced that the Biden Administration will send another $400 MILLION to the Hamas-occupied region. This is ludicrous.”
• [Position, 2024-03-13 and 2024-05-22] His bill to stop the American pier off Gaza and his account of what happened to it: “Now, after spending $312 MILLION of YOUR tax dollars, the Pentagon is admitting that none of the humanitarian aid unloaded via the port has made its way to civilians. NONE. In fact, most of it has been stolen by Hamas and other terrorist groups.” The same week he wrote that he had introduced the No Funds for Gaza Act “to make sure that not a penny of your tax dollars are spent to build infrastructure that Hamas could use.”
• [Position, 2024-04-30] His statement on a reported plan to admit Palestinians from Gaza to the United States.
• [Position, 2025-07-31] He welcomed the administration denying visas to Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization officials: “You can’t give aid and comfort to the terrorists who kill Americans and Israelis and expect to be welcomed on American soil with open arms.”
• [Reaction window, 2024-01-17] A committee letter he signed with the then chairman and two other members demanding that the head of the refugee agency testify. Not on the card summary; recorded here with its date. The letter is a collective document of four members.
• Nothing located in which he supports any American humanitarian spending reaching Gaza or the West Bank.

Characterization of the conflict

• [Position, 2024-01-30 or 2024-01-31] The New Republic's account of activists from the anti-war group CodePink confronting him, published February 1, 2024. It reports that when asked whether he had seen pictures of babies killed in Gaza he said “These are not innocent Palestinian civilians”, and that when a protester said much of Gaza's infrastructure had been destroyed he said “And there’s more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed” and then “Did you not hear me? There’s more that needs to be destroyed.” The Daily Beast reported the same exchange the same day, printing the infrastructure sentence with a comma rather than a full stop. The two reports disagree about the day: the Daily Beast says Tuesday and The New Republic says Wednesday, which is January 30 or January 31, 2024. Both outlets add their own characterizations of what he meant; those are theirs and are not used. The video itself was not watched. His own blog posts of March and April 2024 describe further encounters with the same group and say “I reminded them where we stand on terrorists: on their throats”; the April post says they “want to give YOUR tax dollars to Hamas.”
• [Position, 2024-05-29] His blog post “Two State Delusion”: “Support for a Palestine state can be summed up in one word: delusional.” And: “The simple fact is that if a Palestinian state were ever created, it would automatically be labeled by the U.S. as a state sponsor of terrorism.”
• [Position, 2025-07-24 and 2025-09-21] On France recognizing a Palestinian state: “Choosing to reward terrorism, hostage taking, and genocide against Jews is the wrong choice.” On Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom doing the same: “Recognition of a ‘State of Palestine’ is empty virtue signaling that only rewards the Hamas butchers and rapists.”
• [Position, 2025-01-15 and 2025-10-08] On the January 2025 ceasefire: “We don’t trust Hamas. We trust that President Trump has put the fear of God into Hamas.” On the first phase of the Gaza peace plan: “President Trump just did what career diplomats never could — he brought the world closer than it’s ever been to peace in Gaza. This deal only works if Hamas follows through. We don’t trust terrorists, we trust results.”
• [Position, 2024-10-07 and 2025-10-07] His post on the first anniversary of the October 7 attack and his post on the second, both about the American dead and the hostages, and the second about antisemitism in the United States.
• [Position, 2024-04-04] His statement criticising the President for urging a ceasefire.
• [Position, 2024-02-21] His blog post on a committee exchange with a State Department under secretary about the administration's support for Palestinian statehood.
• [Position, 2025-02-06] He met the Israeli prime minister in Washington: “Great to meet with America’s strong friend and ally, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. America and Israel share an unbreakable bond that is forged by battle for common values and against common enemies.”
• [Reaction window, 2023-10-13, 2023-10-19 and 2023-11-01] Three items our research raised and each is left out of the card summary because of its date: wearing the uniform of his Israel Defense Forces volunteer service to the Capitol; arguing at a committee markup that humanitarian assistance should be slowed; and his remarks on the House floor about the phrase “innocent Palestinian civilians”, which prompted a censure resolution. They are recorded here with their dates, and none of them, in any form, appears on the card. His own site's Israel index carries twenty-three items from those weeks, including posts dated 2023-10-24 on American dollars going into Palestinian-controlled areas and 2024-01-22 on funding for Hamas, and all of them stay here.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

• [Position, 2024-05-07, 2024-06-04 and 2025-01-09] His bill to sanction International Criminal Court officials, the court that issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders. He announced it with: “That’s why I’m introducing legislation to sanction any ICC official that is working to investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute a U.S. citizen or an official from an allied U.S. country, like Israel.” The House passed it in June 2024 and passed it again as H.R. 23 in the first week of the new Congress, where he said: “I don’t care if you are a terrorist in a cave or a lawyer at the Hague, if you get in the way of bringing American hostages home, then you will be given no quarter and you damn well shouldn’t expect to be welcomed on American soil with open arms.” Rep. Chip Roy's words in the same release are his.
• [Position, 2025-02-27] Responsible Statecraft, a publication of the Quincy Institute, reported that he instructed the committee's Republican staff to refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria, confirming an Axios report. It quotes his memo: “In recognition of our unbreakable bond with Israel and the inherent right of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland, the House Foreign Affairs committee will, from here forward, refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria in formal correspondence, communication and documentation.” The article says his Washington office confirmed the reporting by telephone. The article's own characterizations, and the figure a Quincy Institute fellow quoted there for his career receipts from a lobbying committee, are not used on this card.
• [Position, 2025-03-31] He and the Senate Foreign Relations chairman warned the United Nations Secretary-General against creating an Israel-specific investigative mechanism at the Human Rights Council, threatening sanctions. The letter is a joint document of two chairmen.
• [Earlier record, 2019-05-15 and earlier] He filed a discharge petition on a package including anti-boycott measures. His issues page and campaign page both say he opposes the boycott movement. Recorded as history.
• The tracked funding totals on this record are shown in the card's record section and are not restated here. Nothing located in which he speaks about donations from any organization on this subject.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

• [Position, 2025-10-07] His post on the second anniversary: “And while Hamas continues its terror overseas, the battle against antisemitic hate continues here at home.”
• [Position, 2024-04-17 and 2024-05] Our research reported that he confronted student protesters outside a committee hearing on Columbia University and posted about campus encampments. The Associated Press report it cited does not name him, and no post of his on the subject was located in his own newsroom. Nothing is written from it.
• [Reaction window, 2023-10-13 and 2023-12-15] A letter to Harvard's leadership about student organizations, and his post “We Won’t Ignore Antisemitism” about the testimony of three university presidents. Neither is on the card summary; both are recorded here with their dates.
• [Position, 2025-12] He and the committee's ranking member introduced a resolution condemning an antisemitic shooting in Australia. A joint measure with another member.

What his campaign site and his own pages say

• [Position, read 2026-09-18] His campaign site lists eleven priorities, of which Supporting our Ally Israel is one. That page is current: it names his chairmanship. Its in-scope sentence is quoted above. The site's blog carries two further posts on the subject, dated March and May 2024.
• [Position; undated, read 2026-09-18] His official issues page lists thirteen issues including Supporting Our Ally Israel, whose text is quoted above.
• [Read 2026-09-18] His biography: fifth term, more than twelve years in the U.S. Army, a bomb disposal expert in Afghanistan who lost both legs, later a Department of Homeland Security explosives specialist and a Harvard graduate who “volunteered to serve alongside the Israel Defense Forces”. He sits on Transportation and Infrastructure and chairs Foreign Affairs.

The race

• [Read 2026-09-18] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Florida's 21st District: “Incumbent Brian Mast, James Martin, Alexander Cooke, and David Fabrikant are running in the general election for U.S. House Florida District 21 on November 3, 2026.” The same page lists Cooke with no party affiliation and Fabrikant as a write-in candidate with no party affiliation. James Martin defeated Bernard Taylor in the Democratic primary on August 18, 2026, and the Republican primary was cancelled, so Mast advanced without appearing on a primary ballot. His Ballotpedia page records his committee assignments and his campaign address. The other candidates' records belong on their own cards.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

• The Forbes report of the censure resolution our research cited, at https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/11/06/democrat-pushes-censure-of-gops-brian-mast-for-comparing-palestinian-civilians-to-nazi-civilians/ , and the Times of Israel report of his selection as chairman, at https://www.timesofisrael.com/lawmaker-who-assisted-idf-as-civilian-volunteer-to-lead-house-foreign-affairs-panel/ , and the advocacy scorecard at https://www.fp4america.org/scorecard/brian-mast/118 . All three refused every attempt on 2026-09-18. Nothing on this card depends on any of them.
• The C-SPAN video our research cited at https://www.facebook.com/CSPAN/videos/rep-brian-mast-r-fl-on-uniform/987387819194823/ and the CodePink footage the two reports describe. No video was watched for this card.
• Congress.gov, which could not be opened on 2026-09-18. The cosponsor list for H.R. 8369 was read on GovTrack instead.
• His accounts on X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. None was read here.

Not on the card, and why

• Everything dated between October 7, 2023 and January 25, 2024, which on this record is a great deal: the uniform he wore to the Capitol, the markup remark about slowing humanitarian assistance, the House floor remark about the phrase “innocent Palestinian civilians” and the censure resolution that followed, the Harvard letter, the hostage-taker and Hamas-financing measures of that autumn, the committee letter about the refugee agency, and the twenty-three posts on his own Israel index from those weeks. All are on the research page with their dates. This is the single largest body of material kept off this card, and it would if anything sharpen the picture the card already gives.
• Everything he has said about Iran: the nuclear agreement, the strikes, the unfrozen assets, the resolutions and the sanctions bills. A different question from what the United States sends to the government of Israel. Where an Iran clause sits inside a sentence of his that is quoted whole, the quotation keeps its own words and nothing is built on it.
• Joint United States and Israel missile defense, which he has worked on since 2017 and which his campaign page still claims credit for. Kept off the fifty-word front by standing rule; it is on the research page with no prejudice.
• The campus antisemitism material and his work on foreign gifts to universities: context about safety, not an answer to what America sends.
• The words of Rep. Josh Gottheimer, Rep. Chip Roy, Rep. Ryan Zinke, Rep. Brad Sherman, Sen. Jim Risch and the former committee chairman. Other people's words; where he signed a joint letter or bill it is recorded as a joint document and is not sharpened into a statement of his alone.
• The New Republic's and the Daily Beast's own characterizations of what his remarks to CodePink meant, and Responsible Statecraft's characterizations and the career funding figure it quotes from a think-tank fellow. Third parties speaking about him.
• The water quality, veterans, transportation, immigration and tax material that fills most of his newsroom and most of his campaign site. Out of scope.
• James Martin's, Alexander Cooke's and David Fabrikant's records. Another candidate's record belongs on that candidate's own card.
• The recorded votes and the tracked funding totals. Both are shown in this card's record section. The prose narrates no roll call and no dollar figure from them; where the card describes the 2024 bill to force delivery of the withheld weapons, it does so from what he wrote about it himself.

Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

• https://mast.house.gov/press-releases and the 525 items it lists, January 2017 to September 2026 (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://mast.house.gov/israel and its Israel index, all 9 pages and 98 items, January 2017 to October 2025 (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://mast.house.gov/issues and https://mast.house.gov/biography (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/mast-responds-to-biden-s-reported-half-of-ammunition-transfers-to-israel (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-05-05)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/mast-blasts-biden-s-threat-to-withhold-weapons-from-israel (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-05-08)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/we-stand-with-our-ally (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-05-16)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/4/not-another-dollar-to-hamas-terrorism (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-04-19)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/2/standing-with-our-ally-israel (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-02-07)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/1/mast-disband-the-hamas-tied-united-nations-agency-in-the-west-bank-and-gaza and https://mast.house.gov/2024/1/unrwa-is-funneling-our-tax-dollars-to-terrorism (opened; 2026-09-18; both published 2024-01-30)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/mast-gottheimer-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-claw-back-american-tax-dollars-from-unrwa , https://mast.house.gov/2024/7/claw-back-the-money-sent-to-terrorists and https://mast.house.gov/2024/7/democrats-desperately-defend-unrwa (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-05-07, 2024-07-18 and 2024-07-10)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/6/mast-secures-inclusion-of-prohibition-on-gaza-rebuilding-in-national-defense-authorization-act and https://mast.house.gov/2024/6/build-in-america-not-gaza (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-06-12 and 2024-06-13)
• https://mast.house.gov/press-releases?ID=869B62C5-AB2A-4F7A-9DA3-0DFBFD242B09 and https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/heres-the-latest-on-the-gaza-port-to-empower-hamas (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-03-13 and 2024-05-22)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/3/we-stand-on-their-throats and https://mast.house.gov/2024/4/codepink-followed-me-from-washington-to-florida (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-03-13 and 2024-04-24)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/two-state-delusion , https://mast.house.gov/blog?ID=B00B8FA7-D248-4180-9668-764F6FFC0CF3 , https://mast.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3E1DECA9-7202-435B-8A40-52B387BE90E8 , https://mast.house.gov/press-releases?ID=3385E8BC-0F31-4713-8087-4CEE20B0C915 and https://mast.house.gov/press-releases?ID=72FC52B5-25EF-4F69-92B2-61F0B0E5C065 (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-05-29, 2024-02-21, 2024-04-30, 2024-04-04 and 2024-05-06)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/5/play-stupid-games-win-stupid-prizes , https://mast.house.gov/2024/6/house-tells-icc-to-step-off and https://mast.house.gov/press-releases?ID=B63105C9-0F28-4D2D-874A-6FCE68A518D7 (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-05-07, 2024-06-04 and 2024-06-04)
• https://mast.house.gov/2024/10/one-year-since-october-7th and https://mast.house.gov/2025/10/october-7-two-years-later (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-10-07 and 2025-10-07)
• https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases and 610 items across its listing (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-introduces-bill-to-ensure-foreign-military-financing-puts-america-first and https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-foreign-affairs-committee-advances-measures-to-improve-foreign-arms-sales (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-05-04 and 2026-05-13)
• https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-rep-zinke-applaud-president-trump-s-america-first-arms-transfer-strategy (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2026-02-09)
• https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-passes-chairman-mast-s-bill-sanction-international-criminal-court-for-targeting-israel (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-01-09)
• https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-issues-statement-in-response-the-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal , https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-meets-with-israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu , https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/mast-risch-threaten-sanctions-if-un-human-rights-council-creates-special-powers-target-israel , https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-on-france-recognizing-state-of-palestine , https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-applauds-sanctions-against-palestinian-authority-and-palestine-liberation-organization-officials , https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-statement-on-australia-canada-uk-recognizing-state-of-palestine and https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/chairman-mast-on-first-phase-of-gaza-peace-deal (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-01-15, 2025-02-06, 2025-03-31, 2025-07-24, 2025-07-31, 2025-09-21 and 2025-10-08)
• https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/committee-republicans-demand-answers-after-reports-of-unrwa-aid-ending-up-in-hamas-hands (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2024-01-17)
• https://mastforcongress.com/ and https://mastforcongress.com/priorities/israel/ (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Florida%27s_21st_Congressional_District_election,_2026 and https://ballotpedia.org/Brian_Mast (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://newrepublic.com/post/178679/gop-congressman-brian-mast-dead-palestinian-babies-not-innocent and https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-brian-mast-says-babies-killed-in-gaza-are-not-innocent-palestinian-civilians/ (opened; 2026-09-18; both published 2024-02-01)
• https://responsiblestatecraft.org/rep-mast-west-bank/ (opened; 2026-09-18; published 2025-02-27)
• https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr8369/cosponsors (opened; 2026-09-18)
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/11/06/democrat-pushes-censure-of-gops-brian-mast-for-comparing-palestinian-civilians-to-nazi-civilians/ , https://www.timesofisrael.com/lawmaker-who-assisted-idf-as-civilian-volunteer-to-lead-house-foreign-affairs-panel/ , https://www.fp4america.org/scorecard/brian-mast/118 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8369 (could not open; 2026-09-18)
• This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-18, not a claim that no other statement exists.