But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Eric Burlison
- Backed with $15K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
Burlison's position is that aid to the government of Israel should travel alone. He backed the Israel military-aid provisions of the 2024 spending package while opposing its Ukraine funding, citing border security and accountability.
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Deep Dive
Burlison has represented Missouri's 7th District since 2023.
The consistent thread in his record is not whether to fund the government of Israel but how. In April 2024 he told Missourinet that he supported the Israel military-aid provisions of the federal spending package while opposing its Ukraine components, citing border security and accountability. We tried to open that page and were unable to, so his position is given without quotation marks.
In March and April 2024 he travelled to Israel on a delegation sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, an affiliate of AIPAC.
There is more on the research page.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
• Vote record imported from official House Clerk roll calls for H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, and H.R. 8369. Other position fields remain under investigation.
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
$15K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
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
- [Position, 2024-04-24, reported] Told Missourinet that he supported the provisions of the federal spending package providing military aid to Israel while opposing the Ukraine components over border security and accountability. **That host served 548 bytes to every request ** and could not be read, so nothing is quoted from it and the position is reported as the research records it.
- [Position, 2024-04-19, reported] In media appearances after Israeli strikes on Iran, supported funding for Israel's military defence needs while expressing scepticism about combined foreign-assistance packages. Sources are unlabelled YouTube videos; not readable.
- [After October 7, 2023-10-31] Argued on NewsNation for passing Israel military assistance as standalone legislation rather than attached to Ukraine aid. From the weeks right after October 7, and the source is a video; recorded, not quoted.
- [After October 7, 2023-10-31] Co-sponsor of the Stand with Israel Act, H.R. 6118, to withhold U.S. funding from the UN Human Rights Council. **Co-sponsorship and his own quote both confirmed verbatim ** in Rep. Luna's release, which lists him among the co-sponsors and carries his words: "Hamas's disgusting attack on innocents in Israel should be denounced in every possible way and it's a disgrace the UN has refused to condemn Hamas. It's our duty as leaders of the free world to defend them. The UNHRC should be ashamed and not a single cent of American tax dollars should fund this corrupt organization." From the weeks right after October 7, so research page only.
⚠ Note this is **another member's release**, quoting fifteen members. His quote was located under his own name and attribution line; nothing else on the page is used, and the other members' quotes on it are theirs.
- His recorded votes appear as badges on this card and are uniform.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- No statement or documented position located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [After October 7, 2023-10-31] As reported, characterised Hamas on NewsNation as the "real terrorists in the region" whose posture is that "Israel must be wiped off of the map," leaving Israel "no choice but to replace Hamas." the weeks right after October 7 and the source is a video; not quoted.
- [After October 7, 2023-10-11] Co-sponsored H.Res. 771 describing the October 7 attacks as a "barbaric war" (BillTrack50, LegiScan). Resolution text, not his wording.
- [Position, 2025-02-27, reported] A video address calling on Hamas to release all remaining hostages and affirming the U.S.-Israel alliance. Cource not located as a readable page.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2024-03-31 to 2024-04-07] Travelled to Israel on a congressional delegation sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, an affiliate of AIPAC. The research's sources are two House travel disclosure filings, which are the appropriate record for a sponsored trip.
- [Position, 2024-04-23] On Fox Business, as reported, called for dismantling pro-Palestinian encampments on college campuses (clip). Video; not readable. Also student-paper coverage of a congressional press conference at an encampment.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Covered by the campus-encampment material above, which is context under the content rule rather than an answer about U.S. weapons or funding.
⚠ Note on the sources
- Of eighteen sources, **nine are unlabelled YouTube videos or shorts** (three of them duplicates), one is a Facebook post from the Israeli consulate in New York about a meeting with House Democratic leaders and nothing to do with him, and one is a Wikipedia article. The single most substantive readable source is another member's press release. This is a thin set of readable sources for an incumbent.
Also in this race
- ✓Opposes Missi Hesketh (Democrat)
- ✓Opposes Kevin Craig (Libertarian)
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