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

Dan Green

Republican · U.S. House, Florida District 9
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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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No recorded votes on the bills we track. Endorsed by Republican Jewish Coalition.

Nothing located as of September 2026 has Green taking a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. A voter guide asked whether those ties are important. He answered “It is. We share many common values and strategic interests.”

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Deep Dive

Dan Green is the Republican nominee in Florida’s 9th District. He describes the seat after redistricting as the Orlando and Osceola County area together with Indian River, Okeechobee, Highlands, Glades and part of Polk County. He was a Navy intelligence officer at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, has served twenty-three years in the Navy Reserve with five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2019 to 2021. He took 25.4 percent of a seven-way Republican primary on August 18, 2026 and faces Darren Soto, the sitting member, on November 3, 2026.

One thing in his own words on this subject was located, and it is a single line in a voter guide. iVoterGuide, a voter guide published by AFA Action that rates candidates and publishes their questionnaire answers, asked him “Is the United States’ relationship with Israel important, and if so why?” He answered: “It is. We share many common values and strategic interests.” On the same form he picked, from four descriptions of American foreign policy, “B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny.” He answered every question on that form, including the optional ones, so the silence is his and not the form’s. Nothing on it asks about weapons transfers, military financing or humanitarian aid, and he volunteers nothing about them.

The silence is worth measuring against his working life, which has been spent on this region. He served in Fallujah and Baghdad and in Afghanistan, and was a State Department political advisor in Uruzgan province. From 2011 he was a defense fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington research organization that studies American policy in the Middle East, and his published analysis there runs from 2011 to 2019. All thirty-seven items listed under his name are about Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and al-Qaeda. None is about Israel, the Palestinians or what the United States sends either of them, and the list is on his research page.

His campaign has not taken the question up anywhere else. His platform sets out six priorities: following the Constitution, restoring peace through strength, overdevelopment in Florida, property insurance rates, grocery and fuel prices, and housing affordability. The peace-through-strength plank is about keeping the American military funded and names no other country. Asked in the Osceola News-Gazette’s questionnaire of all seven Republicans in the primary, published July 24, 2026, what he would do on national security, he answered that the most significant national security threat to the nation is the People’s Republic of China and named no other. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian and Hamas appear nowhere on his campaign site, in his Ballotpedia answers, or in that questionnaire.

You are better placed to change this than we are. Ask Green directly, or at a candidate forum, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in his own words, which is worth more than anything we could write about him.

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.
Endorsed by Republican Jewish Coalition
Republican Jewish CoalitionThe Republican Jewish Coalition's PAC; it financially supports Republican candidates who reflect its priorities, including strong U.S. backing of the government of Israel.These endorsements come from groups that back sending U.S. weapons and funding to the government of Israel.

In their words

“It is. We share many common values and strategic interests.”
Source ↗, 2026-09-19
Endorsements

Republican Jewish Coalition (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 2026-09-19 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full: the home page, the biography page, the endorsements page, the news page and the media page, which are all the pages it has apart from donation and sign-up forms. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Green has never held elective office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is 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

  • Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about weapons transfers, Foreign Military Financing, security assistance, conditions on aid or any bill on those subjects appears in his voter-guide answers, on his campaign site, in his Ballotpedia questionnaire, in the Osceola News-Gazette questionnaire of all seven Republicans in this primary, in either of the two radio interviews written up by Florida’s Voice, or in his published policy analysis.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located, at any date. Neither UNRWA, nor humanitarian funding for Gaza, nor the aid pipeline appears anywhere in his published material.

Characterization of the conflict

  • Nothing located, at any date. The words Gaza, Palestinian and Hamas appear nowhere in his own material. The only appearance of the word Israel is in the voter-guide question below and his one-line answer to it.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Position, undated page; read 2026-09-19] His iVoterGuide profile for this race. Under NATIONAL SECURITY the guide asks: “Is the United States’ relationship with Israel important, and if so why?” His written answer: “It is. We share many common values and strategic interests.” The same section asks which view of American foreign policy most closely resembles his, offering four: “A) The United States should intervene whenever freedom is threatened. B) The United States should selectively help countries trying to grow democracy and fight tyranny. C) The United States has become too involved in others’ policies and should remain focused on issues regarding our own sovereignty unless in imminent danger. D) The United States should stay out of foreign conflicts completely.” He chose B. He marked “Strongly Agree” to “Islamic terrorism is a threat to the United States’ national security” and to “The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.” He answered every question on the form, including the optional ones, which is why the answer above is treated as evidence and the silence on weapons and aid is treated as his. The page carries no publication date of its own beyond a version stamp, so it is recorded on the date it was read. iVoterGuide describes itself in its footer as a division of AFA Action; it rates candidates and this profile rates him “Conservative”.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-19] The same profile lists endorsements it classes as conservative, among them Jake Ellzey, August Pfluger, Danny Burgess, Rich McCormick and Patt Maney, and one it classes as other, the War Veterans Fund PAC. His campaign’s own endorsements page lists ten members and former members of Congress who are veterans, and a group of Florida sheriffs and legislators. No organization connected with this subject appears on either list, and no endorsement is a statement by him.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

  • Nothing located, at any date, for this candidate. Statements about antisemitism and Holocaust education published under the name Dan Green belong to a different person; see the namesake note below.

Earlier record: his published policy analysis

  • [Earlier record, 2011 to 2019] His profile as a defense fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a Washington research organization that studies American policy in the Middle East. The profile describes his work as counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency and stability operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, lists his deployments and his three books on Afghanistan and Fallujah, and records that he became deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development in March 2019. The full list of his policy analysis for the institute returns 37 results, dated February 2011 to September 2019, and was read through both of its pages. Every item is about Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Taliban or al-Qaeda. None is about Israel, the Palestinians, Gaza or American aid to any of them. This is an earlier record and is history rather than a current position; it is here because a reader weighing his silence should know what he has written about instead.

What the campaign site and own pages say

  • [Undated; read 2026-09-19] His campaign home page carries six issue headings: Follow the Constitution; Restoring Peace Through Strength; Stop Over-development in Florida; Lower Property Insurance Rates; Make Groceries & Gas Affordable Again; Housing Affordability. The peace-through-strength heading reads in full: “The United States is the greatest military force on earth. Our armed forces guarantee peace for the American people, protect our way of life, and secure our interests abroad. Dan will work with President Trump to ensure our military remains funded and fit for action.” No other country is named anywhere in it.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-19] His biography page sets out his service, his awards and his appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy & Force Development in 2019. The only occurrence of the phrase Middle East on the whole site is in the sentence about his four tours there.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-19] His campaign news page lists eight press items from June to August 2026, on his launch, his fundraising, his endorsements and an advertisement. None is about this subject. The media page is empty.
  • [Position, 2026-06-26] Florida’s Voice on his radio interview with Brendon Leslie. He says his Pentagon role was to pivot the department toward the long-term threat of Communist China through a doctrine of “peace through strength”, and: “You can’t have deterrence unless you have a war-winning capability as well.” The Middle East is not raised.
  • [Position, 2026-08-03] Florida’s Voice on his radio interview with Drew Steele. He names reducing prices, defending the Constitution and restoring peace through strength, and says affordability is what voters raise most often. He praises increased defense spending by NATO allies and greater contributions from countries hosting American bases. The Middle East is not raised.
  • [Position, 2026-07-24] The Osceola News-Gazette questionnaire of all seven Republicans in the primary, read under his own heading. He gives his age as 50 and his residence as Vero Beach. Under “Building Peace Through Strength” he writes: “It is important to prioritize when and where our national leaders decide to use military force. Detering our main adversaries requires us to build our capabilities, capacity, and resiliency and to spend judiciously. The most significant national security threat to our nation is the People’s Republic of China.” The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, Hamas, foreign aid and Middle East appear nowhere in the whole article, for him or for any of the other six candidates, and no question on the form is about foreign aid.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-19] His Ballotpedia Candidate Connection answers, submitted 2026-07-11. His three key messages are “Make America Affordable Again”, “Restoring Constitutional Government” and “Build Peace Through Strength”. Asked what areas of public policy he is personally passionate about he answers: “Reducing grocery and gas prices, reducing property insurance rates, balancing the budget and paying off the national debt, and having a strong military in order to ensure the peace.” No country is named.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-20] His campaign account on X. The profile reads “Candidate for the Republican nomination for Florida’s Congressional District 9. War Veteran, Trump Appointee, America-First Patriot” and gives Vero Beach and his campaign address. Only the five most recent posts, from August 6 to September 12, 2026, are visible before a sign-in wall; none is about this subject and the rest of the timeline was not read.

The race

Namesakes, and how they were kept off this card

  • Our research opened its summary with a warning that searches conflate this candidate with other people called Dan Green, and four of the ten addresses it listed belong to those other people. The University of Delaware notice of a 2017 Fulbright lecture on United States and Middle East relations is about Daniel Green, an associate professor of political science and international relations at that university and a 1989 Fulbright Scholar, who is not the candidate. Three more concern Dan Green of a United Kingdom Jewish education charity, who speaks about antisemitism and Holocaust education: a charity dinner brochure at ortuk.org, a United Kingdom Charity Commission accounts record, and a Facebook video about a 2020 humanitarian award. Those three were not opened, and nothing from any of the four is on this card.
  • The identity of the candidate was fixed the other way as well, by matching details that only one person has: the awards listed on his campaign biography page, the Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Exceptional Public Service Award, the State Department’s Superior Honor Award, the Army’s Superior Civilian Honor Award and a commendation from Gen. Peter Pace, are the same awards listed on the Washington Institute profile, and the degrees match as well: a doctorate from George Washington University, a master’s from Florida State University and a bachelor’s from American University. The voter-guide profile carries the same education and service record and names the office as U.S. Rep., Dist. 9, Florida.

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

  • Florida Politics ran a candidate series in this primary that asked each candidate whether they would vote to continue funding the defense of the government of Israel and on what conditions. Its pages did not open here, and no entry for Green in that series was found in searching. Nothing is claimed about whether he was asked or what he would have said. The addresses our research listed are https://floridapolitics.com/archives/811044-meet-the-cd-9-candidates-steve-rance/ , https://floridapolitics.com/archives/811661-jorge-martinez-pitches-trio-of-transparency-bills-in-bid-for-congress/ and https://floridapolitics.com/archives/813035-ben-butler-republicans-in-congress-have-more-work-to-do-on-the-cost-of-living/ , and all three are about other candidates.
  • His campaign Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/DanGreenForCongress , and his personal LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-green-bb167429b/ , were not read. His campaign YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@DanGreenFL , was not watched.
  • The ortuk.org dinner brochure and the United Kingdom Charity Commission record listed by our research were not opened. Both belong to a different person of the same name, so nothing turns on them.

Not on the card, and why

  • His “Strongly Agree” to the statement that Islamic terrorism is a threat to national security, and his “Strongly Agree” to the statement about the Chinese Communist Party: a threat assessment names no weapon, no aid program and no transfer, and is not a position on what America sends. Both are quoted above with their questions.
  • His answer naming the People’s Republic of China as the most significant national security threat is on the card, and it is there as what he says when a questionnaire asks him about national security, not as an answer to this question. It is not treated as one.
  • His endorsements, and the endorsements listed on his voter-guide profile: an endorsement is not a statement by him.
  • His published policy analysis of 2011 to 2019: an earlier record, and none of it concerns this question. It is described above so that a reader can see what he has written about instead.
  • The four sources that belong to other people called Dan Green: a different person in each case, set out above.
  • Darren Soto’s record: the other candidate’s record is never narrated on this card.

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

  • https://ivoterguide.com/candidate/77073 (opened; 2026-09-19; undated page, version stamp 2026-09-17)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Dan_Green_(Florida_congressional_candidate) (opened; 2026-09-19; survey submitted 2026-07-11)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Florida%27s_9th_Congressional_District_election,_2026 (opened; 2026-09-19)
  • https://dangreenfl.com/ (opened; 2026-09-19; undated)
  • https://dangreenfl.com/meet-dan/ (opened; 2026-09-19; undated)
  • https://dangreenfl.com/endorsements/ (opened; 2026-09-19; undated)
  • https://dangreenfl.com/news/ (opened; 2026-09-19; undated)
  • https://dangreenfl.com/media/ (opened; 2026-09-19; the page has no content)
  • https://www.aroundosceola.com/election-2026/voting-central-florida-meet-us-congressional-district-9-republican-candidates (opened; 2026-09-19; published 2026-07-24)
  • https://flvoicenews.com/former-trump-defense-official-dan-green-outlines-congressional-bid-policy-priorities/ (opened; 2026-09-19; published 2026-06-26)
  • https://flvoicenews.com/dan-green-outlines-campaign-priorities-says-affordability-tops-voter-concerns/ (opened; 2026-09-19; published 2026-08-03)
  • https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/experts/daniel-green (opened; 2026-09-19; undated)
  • https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/by-expert/882 (opened; 2026-09-19; both pages of the list read)
  • https://x.com/DanGreenFL (opened to a sign-in wall; 2026-09-20)
  • https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2017/april/us-middle-east-relations-lecture/ (opened; 2026-09-19; published 2017-04-13; a different person of the same name)
  • https://floridapolitics.com/archives/811044-meet-the-cd-9-candidates-steve-rance/ (could not open; 2026-09-19)
  • https://www.facebook.com/DanGreenForCongress (not read; 2026-09-19)
  • https://www.youtube.com/@DanGreenFL (not watched; 2026-09-19)
  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-green-bb167429b/ (not read; 2026-09-19)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-20, not a claim that no other statement exists.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Darren Soto (Democrat)

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