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

Tom Emmer

Republican · U.S. House, Minnesota District 6
✗Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes

Emmer, the majority whip, voted for every tracked aid bill and against both amendments to cut aid to Israel, co-sponsoring the 2024 bill to stop the administration’s withholding of shipments. After visiting Kibbutz Be’eri he rejected genocide allegations and called the October 7 attackers “animals”.

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Deep Dive

Emmer has represented Minnesota’s 6th District since 2015 and is House majority whip. His six recorded votes appear as badges on this card: Yes on all four tracked aid measures, No on both amendments to cut aid to Israel.

His May 2024 whip release on the Israel Security Assistance Support Act carried the case, with outside groups’ endorsements, against the administration’s withholding of arms shipments. In a September 2025 Washington Reporter interview after a bipartisan trip to Israel, verified: he described meeting a Kibbutz Be’eri resident, called the roughly 350 attackers "animals", and rejected allegations that Israel is committing genocide. In July 2023 he marked President Herzog’s address by calling Israel "our strongest and most important ally in the Middle East".

On campuses he pressed the University of Minnesota twice in 2024, asking its incoming president for a plan to safeguard Jewish students after describing encampments as lawless, and characterized some demonstrators as "pro-terrorist anti-Semites", per Washington Post coverage carried on his own page.

One countervailing episode is on the record: as NRCC chairman in March 2019 he signed a fundraising letter saying three Jewish billionaires "bought control" of Congress, which Jewish organizations criticized as invoking an antisemitic trope, per the Times of Israel and the Forward; his office said no offense was intended. His October-November 2023 statements are on the research page. AIPAC’s tracked support appears as a badge on this card.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes · Backs 0 of 1 tracked bills to restrict weapons transfers

Floor votes
H.R. 6126 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act2023-11-02 · Passed 226-196
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.R. 7217 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20242024-02-06 · Failed 250-180 (needed 2/3 under suspension)
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.R. 8034 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20242024-04-20 · Passed 366-58
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending it
H.R. 8369 - Israel Security Assistance Support Act2024-05-16 · Passed 224-187
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending 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
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
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.
Not sponsoringhas not backed this support bill
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

$30K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track

Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $30,000
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
AIPAC$30,000The 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.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
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.These endorsements come from groups that back sending U.S. weapons and funding to the government of Israel.

In their words

Endorsements

AIPAC (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

  • His recorded votes appear as badges on this card: Yes on H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, H.R. 8369, and H.R. 7217; No on both amendments to cut aid to Israel.
  • [Action, 2024-05-16] The whip release on the mandate bill, verified by page; the quoted endorsements are outside groups’.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • Nothing located as a distinct position at any date.

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • Tracked committee support appears as a badge on this card.
  • [Statement, 2025-02-05] His leadership statement on the Trump-Netanyahu meeting; his own page, reported by listing.

Safety and antisemitism

  • [Actions, 2024-04/07] The University of Minnesota letters, verified by page, and his pro-terrorist-anti-Semites characterization of some demonstrators, per Washington Post coverage; the characterization is his.
  • [Episode, 2019-03] The NRCC fundraising letter saying three Jewish billionaires "bought control" of Congress; the Times of Israel’s report, verified; the trope criticism is the critics’, and his office’s no-offense response is carried with it.

Sources retrieved for this card

Race and status context

  • Sitting member, nominated. His Democratic challenger’s card carries its own record.

Also in this race

  1. ✓ Doug Chapin (Democrat)

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