But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Sharice L. Davids
- Backed with $20K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by DMFI PAC
Davids’s votes split: for the April 2024 package, against the standalone bills, the shipment-release bill, and both amendments cutting that aid. A year after the attack she wrote of "horrific murders and brutal attacks carried out by Hamas" and said "we must do more to support the civilians".
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Deep Dive
Davids represents Kansas’s 3rd District, the Kansas City suburbs, and is the sitting member.
Her recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card and split: against the November 2023 and February 2024 standalone bills, for the April 2024 package, against the May 2024 shipment-release bill, and against both amendments to cut aid to Israel. Nothing located explains the standalone No votes in her own words, and this card does not guess.
Her one-year-anniversary statement reads: "horrific murders and brutal attacks carried out by Hamas across Israel one year ago. The hostages must be released immediately. Too many innocent lives have been lost, and we must do more to support the civilians", both directions of concern in one verified passage. After the 2025 Washington murders of two Israeli Embassy staffers (one of them, Sarah Milgrim, from her metro area) she issued a statement in both victims’ names.
Ceasefire protesters demonstrated at her office in December 2023; her October 2023 support-for-security-assistance post is on the research page. Nothing located has her addressing U.S. humanitarian aid funding as its own question.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 3 of 6 tracked votes · Backs 0 of 1 tracked bills to restrict weapons transfers
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 exactly half of their recorded tracked votes. The tie is broken by an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 3 of 6 tracked votes.)
The money
$20K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
DMFI PAC (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
- Her recorded votes appear as badges on this card and split as the front states; no located explanation of the standalone No votes, which stand unexplained.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-07] Her post that she has "always supported security assistance for Israel, our close ally in the Middle East", per KCUR and her site. Not on the card summary.
- [Prior, 2021-06-02] The bipartisan Iron Dome replenishment letter, via Rep. Gottheimer’s release; prior band, defensive-systems detail stays off the front.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- The civilians line in her anniversary statement, quoted on the card; nothing located addresses funding as its own question.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-10-07] The anniversary statement, verified and quoted on the card.
- [Reaction window, 2023-12-08] The ceasefire protest at her office; the protesters’ demand, not her position. A native-news piece on Indigenous Democrats and ceasefire calls names her without carrying a ceasefire position of hers; nothing imputed.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card. A partisan blog’s attack framing was offered and is not adopted.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-05] The Milgrim-Lischinsky statement, verified by title (body could not be read); Milgrim was from the Kansas City area, and local coverage of her recognition appears in the research record.
- [Position] Her rise-in-antisemitism statement exists on her site; dates checked, nothing quoted.
Race and status context
- Sitting member, nominated. Her Republican and Libertarian opponents’ cards carry their own records.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Eric Jenkins (Republican)
- –No Position Found Steven A Hohe (Libertarian)
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