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Olszewski represents Maryland’s 2nd District and is the sitting member, elected in 2024 after serving as Baltimore County executive.
His two recorded votes on the tracked bills, against both amendments to cut aid to Israel, appear as badges on this card. Running in 2024 he told Jewish Insider, in a piece headlined around his pro-Israel moderation, that Israel is "one of our most critical allies in what remains a very dangerous and unstable part of the world", with support for its right to exist and defend itself.
Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians as a distinct funding question.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 2 tracked votes
Committees
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Floor votes
H.Amdt. 55 to H.R. 4016 - strike $500M for Israeli Cooperative Programs2025-07-18 · Failed 6-422 (only 6 voted to cut)
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
H.R. 8595 - Massie amendment (Part A No. 8) to bar FY27 funds for Israel and cut $3.3B in Foreign Military Financing2026-07-15 · Failed 104-314
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
Bill sponsorship
H.R. 3565 - Block the Bombs ActWould bar transfer of 2,000-lb/BLU-109 bunker busters, JDAMs, 120mm tank rounds, and 155mm artillery shells to Israel. Does not affect Iron
Not sponsoringhas not backed this restriction bill
H.R. 1229 - United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025Formalizes/expands bilateral defense cooperation with Israel.
Co-sponsorbacks this bill to send more support
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.
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
$18K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $15,000 · DMFI: $3,125
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
AIPAC$15,000The American Israel Public Affairs Committee; its PAC backs candidates it sees as strengthening U.S. ties with the government of Israel, including continued U.S. military aid.DMFI PAC$3,125Democratic Majority for Israel's PAC; calls itself the home for pro-Israel Democrats and backs Democratic candidates who support a strong U.S. alliance with the government of Israel.Direct contributions and independent expenditures supporting this candidate from the five lobbying groups we track, every cycle each has filed, through 2026. Excludes earmarked and conduit contributions.
Endorsed by AIPAC +1 more
AIPACThe American Israel Public Affairs Committee; its PAC backs candidates it sees as strengthening U.S. ties with the government of Israel, including continued U.S. military aid.DMFI PACDemocratic Majority for Israel's PAC; calls itself the home for pro-Israel Democrats and backs Democratic candidates who support a strong U.S. alliance with 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
“one of our most critical allies in what remains a very dangerous and unstable part of the world”
Nothing located as a distinct funding question. He appears among signers of the 148-member nonprofit-security and the humanitarian letters circulating in the freshman class per colleagues’ releases; dates checked per item.
His office’s statement stream (several releases in the research record) is dates checked; nothing further quoted.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card. J Street PAC’s endorsement page, retrieved. Mondoweiss and Jewish Insider pieces on freshman Democrats and lobby money name him; the outlets’ framings stay theirs.
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