But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Julia Letlow
Letlow co-sponsored the Israel Security Assistance Support Act in May 2024, which would require prompt delivery of U.S. defense articles and security assistance to Israel. A June 2024 newsletter states her commitment to stand with Israel as America's closest Middle East ally.
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Deep Dive
Letlow represents Louisiana's 5th District in the U.S. House and won the Republican Senate primary runoff on June 27, 2026. Her clearest in-scope act is legislative: H.R. 8369, which she co-sponsored on May 14, 2024, was written to compel the executive branch to deliver defense articles and security assistance to Israel without delay. Her recorded votes on the tracked bills are shown separately on this card.
On July 24, 2024 she attended Prime Minister Netanyahu's joint address to Congress. A constituent newsletter published the month before praised advocacy for U.S. security assistance to Israel and voiced support for U.S.-backed Arab-Israeli normalization. The newsletter is a campaign-office publication rather than a news page we can open, so the wording here is attributive and the quote itself is held for verification.
On March 2, 2026 she issued a statement supporting joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iranian targets, calling Iran the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. That is a position on U.S. military action against Iran, not on what the United States sends to the government of Israel, and it is recorded here rather than on the card for that reason.
Separately, and as context rather than as an answer to the weapons question: she questioned university leaders about antisemitic harassment at a December 5, 2023 committee hearing, and in June 2025 condemned an antisemitic attack on an event supporting Israeli hostages in Colorado, urging full prosecution and, two days later, tying the case to immigration enforcement.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 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 6 of 6 tracked votes.)
The money
$20K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
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
- 2024-05-14 [Current position]: Co-sponsored the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, H.R. 8369, legislation written to mandate prompt delivery of U.S. defense articles and security assistance to Israel. This is the card-leading fact.
- 2024-06 [Current position; month-only date from the publication itself]: A constituent newsletter, The Fifth Flyer, applauded advocacy for U.S. security assistance to Israel and supported U.S.-backed Arab-Israeli normalization, describing a shared "commitment ... to peace, prosperity, and stability in the Middle East". The quoted fragment carries an ellipsis in the text in the search notes, so it is not published as a verbatim quote.
- 2026-03-02 [Current position; OUT OF SCOPE for the card]: Statement supporting joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iranian targets during Operation Epic Fury, saying "Iran is the world's leading sponsor of terrorism and actively plots to kill Americans" and that "President Trump's decisive strikes send a message that America will not tolerate Iran's threats to our national security". Kept because it is a real dated statement about U.S. military action in the region; not on the card summary because it is about Iran, not about what the United States sends to the government of Israel.
- Existing record: six recorded votes on the tracked bills, shown as badges on the card and deliberately not restated in the writing.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2023-12-13 [Months after October 7, 2023; on this page only]: Panelist at the Hudson Institute event "Clarity on Hamas's Terror Campaign and Sexual Violence", where she condemned Hamas's use of sexual violence in the October 7 attacks and called for moral clarity from global women's rights organizations. Also carried on a podcast recording of the same event.
- 2025-10-21 [Current position; not a weapons or funding position]: Joined the Louisiana delegation in a letter to Homeland Security requesting a briefing after an alleged participant in the October 7 attacks was found living in Lafayette. Also reported by JNS and carried on Senator Kennedy's site. Law enforcement and immigration, not U.S. weapons or money.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2022-02-18 to 2022-02-26 [Earlier record]: Official congressional delegation trip to Israel to discuss regional security. Source is her own press release index, a paginated listing rather than a permalink.
- 2023-02 [Earlier record]: Congressional trip to Qatar sponsored by the U.S.-Qatar Business Council, meeting Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Covered in early 2026 by Jewish Insider in the context of Qatar hosting Hamas leaders. A trade delegation is out of scope by the standing content rule; recorded, not used.
- 2024-07-24 [Current position]: Attended Netanyahu's joint address to Congress. A June 2024 newsletter beforehand said she was "in awe of the courage and strength" he had shown and that she is committed to standing with Israel. The found transcription of the closing words is garbled, so the sentence is used attributively and the quote is held pending verification. Attendance was also logged by an advocacy tracker which does not name her; retained here as a source an initial search consulted.
Safety and antisemitism (context, not a weapons or funding position)
- 2023-12-05 [Months after October 7, 2023]: Questioned university leaders on antisemitic harassment as a member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee. Hearing video.
- 2023-12-19 [Months after October 7, 2023]: At the Hudson Institute, said university leaders must expel students and fire faculty who promote antisemitism or defend terrorist organizations. Event video.
- 2025-06-02 and 2025-06-04 [Current position]: Condemned an antisemitic attack on an event supporting Israeli hostages in Colorado, urging full prosecution, then noted the suspect had overstayed a visa and pressed immigration enforcement.
What came back empty or unusable
- No statement located on conditioning, restricting or withholding U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel.
- No statement located on U.S. aid to Palestinians, UNRWA, or Gaza humanitarian funding.
- Three sources found are YouTube recordings that do not name her in the text we could read; they are listed as consulted, not relied on.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Jamie Davis (Democrat)
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