But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Nicholas A. Langworthy
- Backed with $25K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
Langworthy condemned the Biden administration’s decision to withhold U.S. munitions from Israel in May 2024, calling the delay purposeful. He has said nothing located about U.S. aid to Palestinians, in either direction.
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Deep Dive
Langworthy represents New York’s 23rd District in the state’s Southern Tier and western counties, and is running for re-election.
His clearest current-position statement on U.S. weapons is a press release of May 9, 2024 headed "Langworthy Condemns the Biden Administration’s Decision to Withhold Munitions from Israel", issued after reports that shipments were being held back. It opens: "President Biden’s purposeful delay in sending munitions to Israel". He wants the weapons sent.
In April 2024 he wrote a letter after returning from a trip to Israel. In March 2026, after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, he said of the Iranian government that "Their ‘Death to America’ chants and desire to annihilate Israel are not slogans, they have been actively building the nuclear weapons and missile capabilities to make it a reality". That is about Iran rather than about what America sends, and it is on the research page as such.
His statements from October 2023 fall inside the months after October 7, 2023 and are on the research page rather than the card. A large part of the record found for him is legislation on student visas and deportation of foreign students who support terrorist groups, which the content rule places out of scope, and it is recorded there too. His recorded votes on the tracked bills and his funding from pro-Israel committees are shown separately on this card.
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
$25K 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
- 2024-05-09 [Current position; VERIFIED]: Press release headed "Langworthy Condemns the Biden Administration's Decision to Withhold Munitions from Israel", issued following reports that the administration was withholding shipments. Opening words: "President Biden's purposeful delay in sending munitions to Israel". Read on the page; the title and opening are verbatim.
- Undated [Current position; NOT ESTABLISHED AS HIS]: One source found is a release from Rep. Gottheimer's office announcing legislation by Reps. Gottheimer and Tenney to resupply Iron Dome. It is their bill, not his, and nothing in it establishes his role. Not used.
- 2023-10-10 [Months after October 7, 2023; and a colleague's release]: Rep. Tenney's release on legislation to restock Israel's munitions. Again another member's action.
- 2023-10-07 [Months after October 7, 2023; on this page only]: His statement on the Hamas terrorist attacks, issued the day of the attacks.
- 2023-10-18 [Months after October 7, 2023]: Legislation to ensure no Americans are left behind.
- 2024-04-09 [Current position]: A letter issued after returning from Israel. Its contents were not read.
- Undated [Current position]: A bill record is among the sources; an initial search does not say which bill it is for or what he did with it.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located, in either direction. No statement on UNRWA, Gaza humanitarian funding or the aid pipeline.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2026-03-03 [Current position; VERIFIED]: After U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran he told the Olean Star: "Their 'Death to America' chants and desire to annihilate Israel are not slogans, they have been actively building the nuclear weapons and missile capabilities to make it a reality, and over the last four decades have taken every opportunity to" act on it. About Iran's intentions rather than about U.S. aid. The same report carries his Democratic opponent's contrasting view.
- 2024-07-29 [Current position]: A policy weekly covering Netanyahu's visit to Congress, from an advocacy research centre. Recorded as consulted; never carries a card.
- 2026-07-26 [Current position; COULD NOT BE REACHED]: A Newsmax segment on him and Zohran Mamdani would not open. A related post on his own page would not open.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2023-02-02 [Earlier record; out of scope]: He voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. A House disciplinary vote, not a position on U.S. aid.
- 2019-07-15 and 2019-07-17 [Earlier record]: As New York State Republican Committee chair he toured Israel and gave an interview about antisemitism in Congress. Both predate his House service and 2023-10-07.
- 2023-10-23 [Months after October 7, 2023; a colleague's release]: Rep. Tenney demanding accountability over an antisemitic video.
Safety and antisemitism
[Context only, never the answer to what America sends. The content rule names campus fights and immigration measures out of scope, and a large share of this record is those.]
- 2024-07-25 and 2025-03-18 [Current position; out of scope]: He introduced legislation to revoke student visas of pro-terror foreign students and to remove visas and begin deportation, also covered by the Algemeiner. Immigration and campus measures, explicitly out of scope for cards.
- 2024-04-24 [Current position; out of scope]: Newsweek coverage of the Columbia protests.
What came back empty or unusable
- No position located on U.S. aid to Palestinians at all.
- Five sources found are YouTube urls with no retrievable text.
- Three sources found are other members' press releases, two of them Rep. Tenney's and one Rep. Gottheimer's. His own role in the legislation they announce is not established by them.
Also in this race
- ✓Opposes Aaron Gies (Democrat)
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