But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Marlin Stutzman
- Backed with $15K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
Stutzman wants to replace aid with trade: after meeting Netanyahu in May 2026 he introduced a resolution to phase out the $3.8 billion yearly military assistance and move to joint development and purchases; Netanyahu wrote a letter supporting it. He voted against both amendments to cut aid to Israel.
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Deep Dive
Stutzman represents Indiana’s 3rd District, returned to the House in 2024 after an earlier stint.
His position is a specific restructuring proposal, and it runs through Jerusalem: on May 27, 2026 he met Prime Minister Netanyahu, and on June 3 he introduced House Resolution 1339 calling for a new memorandum of understanding that would phase out the traditional $3.8 billion in annual direct military assistance in favor of a framework where Israel purchases U.S.-made systems with its own funds and the two countries expand co-development: "backing Netanyahu’s call to wind down U.S. aid", as Jewish Insider’s headline put it. JNS reports that Netanyahu wrote a June 1 letter supporting the resolution as aligned with his vision. The resolution’s tracker entry carries its text.
What would replace the aid matters for reading this position: the framework under discussion is not less U.S.-Israel military connection but a different and often closer one. Jewish Insider’s May 2026 report on the debate quotes former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro predicting a successor agreement "will likely emphasize joint research and development, sharing technological advances, and expanded co-production", and former Israeli military-intelligence chief Amos Yadlin calling it "a transition from aid to partnership".
His two recorded votes point the same way: he voted No on the amendment that would have struck $500 million for the joint U.S.-Israel missile-defense programs, keeping co-development funded, and No on the 2026 amendment cutting $3.3 billion in security assistance. He proposes to restructure the aid by agreement, not to cut it now.
Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians. Restraint-side and advocacy outlets have read his resolution in opposite directions; their framings are on the research page as theirs.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes
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
$15K 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.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- His recorded votes appear as badges on this card: No on both amendments to cut aid to Israel. The wind-down resolution is a proposal to restructure by mutual agreement, not a cutting vote, and the card keeps the two distinct.
- [Position, 2026-06-03] The resolution and its terms, per Jewish Insider (headline and body verified), JNS (the Netanyahu meeting photo, the $3.8 billion MOU context, and the June 1 Netanyahu support letter), and the bill tracker. The resolution number (H.Res. 1339) is carried from the tracker, not asserted from memory.
- [Position, 2026-05-27] The Jerusalem meeting with the prime minister, alongside Representative Hamadeh, per JNS’s photo caption and body.
- [Context, 2026-05-26] Jewish Insider on the memorandum-replacement debate, verified: successor frameworks under discussion emphasize joint research and development, co-production, and closer partnership rather than disengagement; carried so the phase-out proposal reads accurately.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, unopenable source] A post on his own account reported as "Israel is destroying Hamas before..." has a address too long to retrieve reliably that does not open; our research, nothing claimed. It is not yet confirmed.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
- [Outlets’ framings] Restraint-side outlets (Responsible Statecraft, Antiwar.com, the Arab Center) covered the resolution approvingly as a step toward ending aid; Israel National News and others covered it as strengthening the alliance. Each outlet’s framing is its own; the card carries the resolution’s terms instead.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Nothing located in the position band.
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.
Also in this race
- ?Mixed Kelly Thompson (Democrat)
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