Roger W Marshall
Marshall accused the president of "blocking aid to Israel" when a 2024 ammunition shipment was held. His recorded votes run against every Senate resolution to block a U.S. arms sale to the government of Israel, and against the 2024 package that combined that aid with Ukraine's.
Marshall is Kansas' junior senator and is running for another term. His votes point one way on the arms-sale question: every time the Senate was asked whether to take up a resolution disapproving a specific weapons sale to the government of Israel, he voted no, which was a vote against blocking the sale. The sales were 120-millimetre tank rounds, high-explosive mortar rounds and JDAM bomb guidance kits in November 2024, roughly $8.8 billion of bombs and guidance kits in April 2025 including $2.04 billion of 2,000-pound bombs, 1,000-pound bombs with JDAM kits and automatic rifles in July 2025, and armoured bulldozers and 1,000-pound bombs in April 2026, by which date the Gaza health ministry had reported 72,344 people killed, 20,179 of them children.
One vote of his does not fit that pattern, and it is worth naming rather than leaving as a puzzle on the card. On the 2024 supplemental that combined military aid for the government of Israel with aid for Ukraine and Taiwan, he voted no, against a bill a large bipartisan majority passed. What he has said about the bundling of the two is set out on the research page, because of the dates involved. What can be said here is that the objection is to the package, not to the aid.
In May 2024, when the administration held back a shipment of 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs ahead of the Rafah operation, he wrote to the president demanding an explanation. Newsweek, which read the letter, reports that he said the president had "repeatedly abandoned Israel" and wrote: "I believe the world should know exactly where you stand with Israel." It also records him asking whether the held ammunition was to be rerouted to Ukraine. Afterwards he posted: "Catering to his pro-terrorist, pro-Hamas faction of his party, Joe Biden is blocking aid to Israel. We are demanding answers."
On U.S. money for Palestinians this record holds one statement, and it is old: in a 2021 floor speech he counted "hundreds of millions of dollars" paid to Palestinians among the signals he said had emboldened Hamas and Iran. Nothing since. If you want his current position on that, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Marshall directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.
Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 9 of 10 recorded votes.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, 2024-05-07] Letter to the president after an ammunition shipment to the Israel Defense Forces was held ahead of the Rafah operation, reported by Newsweek, which read the letter. Verified verbatim as the outlet quotes them: he wrote that the president had "repeatedly abandoned Israel" and "I believe the world should know exactly where you stand with Israel." The report records that he asked whether further shipments would be blocked and whether this one was to be rerouted to Ukraine, and quotes his post afterwards: "Catering to his pro-terrorist, pro-Hamas faction of his party, Joe Biden is blocking aid to Israel. We are demanding answers." The letter itself is not published; the words are the outlet's quotation of it.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-26] He introduced the Israel Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2023 with three colleagues, a standalone $14.3 billion bill, on his own Senate press site. The release states the bill "ensures that funding for Israel is not coupled with billions of additional dollars in aid to Ukraine" and blocks the administration "from leveraging aid to Israel for more Ukraine funding". His own words, verified verbatim: "My colleagues and I firmly believe that any aid to Israel should not be used as leverage to send tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine. Any package that does so would result in funds and resources being delayed in Israel's time of need." Off the card (C1): dated inside the reaction window. This is the explanation of his later vote against the combined package, and the rule keeps it here.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-14] On the Senate floor he demanded immediate passage of the House standalone package. Off the card (C1).
- [Position, 2024 to 2026] Ten recorded votes, cross-checked one by one against the official Senate roll-call pages, for example S.J.Res. 111 and S.J.Res. 138. Nine are votes against taking up resolutions that would have blocked a specific U.S. arms sale to the government of Israel. The tenth is a vote against the 2024 national security supplemental, the bill that combined military aid for the government of Israel with aid for Ukraine and Taiwan, and which passed. The card renders all ten; the prose does not re-list them.
- [Undated, now sourced] The record's summary states that he advocates standalone military aid packages for Israel and opposes any measures that would restrict weapons transfers, and its own provenance note says that was derived solely from his roll-call votes. The October 2023 release above is the missing source: he did advocate exactly that, in his own words, on his own Senate site. It is still off the card, but for the date rather than for the sourcing.
- [Position, 2025] The record notes he is on the cosponsor roster for S. 554 in the 119th Congress. The only address recorded for that is an interface at api.congress.gov, which returns an authorization error to an ordinary reader, so it is not linked here and the bill's content is not described.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Earlier record, 2021-05-19] In a Capitol press conference published on his own Senate site, verified verbatim: "And finally, the White House has handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinians. All of these are signals to Iran and Hamas: go ahead, full speed ahead." Predates the period this site tracks, and it is the only statement on this record about U.S. money for Palestinians. Nothing since.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Earlier record, 2021-05-19] From the same remarks, verified verbatim: "Israel on the other hand, Israel is: America's long-time ally, the only democracy in the Middle East, our eyes and ears in a troubled region, portions of which plot to kill Americans." And: "Israel has every right to defend themselves and must keep defending themselves." The same passage describes Hamas at length in terms this page does not reproduce in full; the release's own spelling of one word in it is a typographical error, which is a further reason nothing from that sentence is quoted.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-26] "The brutal, savage attacks launched by Hamas against our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel, have sent shock waves across the world." Off the card (C1).
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee support of $3,993.25 this cycle and Republican Jewish Coalition lifetime support of $5,000 are badges on this card and are not restated.
- [Position, 2024-11-13] He is a cosponsor of a bill to cut U.S. funding to any United Nations agency that restricts the government of Israel's participation. The lead sponsors' release lists him among thirty-two cosponsors. It reaches U.S. money through United Nations procedure rather than through aid itself, which is why it sits here and not on the card. A legislative news feed carries the same announcement.
- [Position, 2024-07-30] A press briefing in which he called the administration's diplomacy on the war "empty words & very few actions". The only carrier is a video with no transcript, so the span is not quoted here and no quote entry is created.
- The record's own profile at the American Jewish Congress political guide records his cosponsorship of anti-boycott legislation across his time in Congress. Named, not quoted; it is an advocacy compilation rather than a statement of his.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2024-05-02] With Senator Rick Scott he called for a Senate hearing on the District of Columbia mayor's refusal to send police to clear a protest encampment at George Washington University, citing risks to Jewish students. Context only.
- [Position, 2025-03-27] At a Senate hearing on campus antisemitism he defended Qatar against a witness who linked Qatari money to campus activity, calling it an ally, reported by Jewish Insider. Reported speech; nothing from it is on the card.
- [Position, 2025-05-01] During markup of the Antisemitism Awareness Act he pressed amendments on religious liberty and free speech, reported by Jewish Insider.
Race and status context
- Kansas' junior senator, running for another term; the field appears on Ballotpedia's race page and on Sedgwick County's certified primary notice. Campaign site read 2026-07-18.
- Two of this record's addresses, both at api.congress.gov, return an authorization error to a reader without a key. They are provenance for the record's own identity and sponsorship checks and were never in-text citations.
Also in this race: David C Graham (Libertarian), Adam Hamilton (Democrat) · All Kansas candidates.
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