But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check

Amy Klobuchar

Democrat · Governor, Minnesota
✗Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 10 tracked votes

Klobuchar, the senator running for governor, voted in 2025 to block specific arms sales to Israel for the first time: “I have supported Israel’s right to defend itself, I always will. But they aren’t changing.” Her earlier record backed aid without conditions and opposed the boycott movement.

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Deep Dive

Klobuchar is the Democratic nominee for governor of Minnesota; her federal record as a U.S. senator carries this card. Her recorded Senate votes appear as badges: Yes on the February 2024 package that included Israel aid, No on the earlier resolutions to block specific arms sales, and Yes on several of the 2025 blocking resolutions, the shift the card fronts.

Jewish Insider’s August 2025 report, verified: she voted for the first time for resolutions blocking U.S. arms sales, "to send a message to the Israeli government of disapproval" over the humanitarian situation, after a direct meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu produced no change: "I have supported Israel’s right to defend itself, I always will. But they aren’t changing." That reverses two decades of the opposite position: at the 2018 AIPAC conference she backed full security-assistance funding, in 2019 she rejected conditioning aid at the J Street conference, she voted for the 2019 act protecting state anti-boycott laws, and her site long said the boycott movement undermines a two-state solution.

In March 2024 she signed the 19-senator letter urging a framework for U.S. recognition of a nonmilitarized Palestinian state, per the letter release, and in July 2025 she decried mass starvation in Gaza on the Senate floor. Her November 2023 humanitarian-pause call is on the research page.

On antisemitism her record is long and verified: the 2021 Senate resolution she co-sponsored, Nonprofit Security Grant funding pushes, and a June 2026 address to Minnesota’s Jewish Community Relations Council on rising antisemitism, per TC Jewfolk.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 10 tracked votes

Floor votes
H.R. 815 - National Security Supplemental2024-04-23 · Passed 79-18 (Senate)
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
S.J.Res. 111 - disapproving sale of 120mm tank rounds to Israel2024-11-20 · Failed 18-79
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
S.J.Res. 113 - disapproving sale of 120mm high-explosive mortar rounds to Israel2024-11-20 · Failed 19-78
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
S.J.Res. 115 - disapproving sale of JDAM bomb guidance kits to Israel2024-11-20 · Failed 17-80
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
S.J.Res. 26 - disapproving $6.75B sale of bombs and guidance kits to Israel2025-04-03 · Failed 15-83
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
S.J.Res. 33 - disapproving $2.04B sale of 2,000-lb bombs to Israel2025-04-03 · Failed 15-82
✗ Voted No
voted against limiting it
S.J.Res. 34 - disapproving $675.7M sale of 1,000-lb bombs and JDAM kits to Israel2025-07-30 · Failed 24-73
✓ Voted Yes
voted to limit or block it
S.J.Res. 41 - disapproving sale of fully automatic assault rifles to Israel2025-07-30 · Motion to Discharge Rejected 27-70
✓ Voted Yes
voted to limit or block it
S.J.Res. 32 - disapproving $295M sale of D9 Caterpillar armored bulldozers to Israel2026-04-15 · Failed 40-59
✓ Voted Yes
voted to limit or block it
S.J.Res. 138 - disapproving $151.8M sale of 1,000-lb bombs to Israel2026-04-15 · Failed 36-63
✓ Voted Yes
voted to limit or block it
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 10 tracked votes.)

In their words

“I have supported Israel’s right to defend itself, I always will. But they aren’t changing.”
Source ↗, 2025-08-02

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 Senate votes appear as badges on this card: Yes on the February 2024 combined package; No on the 2024-era blocking resolutions; Yes on several 2025 blocking resolutions.
  • [Position, 2025-08-02] The Jewish Insider explanation, verified and quoted on the card.
  • [Prior position, 2018-03-05] The AIPAC conference full-funding remarks; conference video and contemporaneous coverage, reported, not confirmed directly.
  • [Prior position, 2019-10-27] The J Street rejection of conditioning aid, per the Forward’s coverage; reported, not confirmed directly.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • [Position, 2025-07-24] Her Senate-floor remarks on starvation in Gaza; floor video and her own social posts, reported, not confirmed directly.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [Action, 2024-03-20] The 19-senator letter urging a recognition framework for a nonmilitarized Palestinian state, per the co-leading office’s release; verified by title with her named in the address.
  • Her November 10, 2023 humanitarian-pause statement is not on the card summary.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Prior actions] The 2019 vote for the act protecting state anti-boycott laws and her site’s long-standing boycott-movement criticism; tracker and archive basis.
  • [Statement, 2025-08] Her spokesperson’s condemnation of a Minneapolis campaign figure’s comments as outrageous; per Jewish Insider, reported, not confirmed directly.

Safety and antisemitism

  • [Action, 2021-05-28] The antisemitism resolution, verified on her own site.
  • [Action, 2025-05-29] The 33-senator Nonprofit Security Grant funding letter, per the co-leading offices; reported, not confirmed directly.
  • [Statement, 2025-10-08] Her condemnation of the Temple Israel vandalism; single-outlet statement to Jewish Insider, reported, not confirmed directly.
  • [Event, 2026-06-07] The JCRC address, verified via TC Jewfolk.

Sources retrieved for this card

Race and status context

  • Democratic nominee for governor; a sitting U.S. senator, so this card carries a federal record. Her Republican opponent’s card carries its own record.

Also in this race

  1. – Lisa Demuth (Republican)
  2. ✓ Steven Young (Green)

All Minnesota candidates.

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