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

Max L. Miller

Republican · U.S. House, Ohio District 7
✗Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes

Miller introduced a resolution condemning the 2024 pause on arms transfers to Israel, calling the hold "a danger to Israel, the hostages still held by Hamas – including Americans, and a gift to a dastardly terrorist organization."

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Deep Dive

Miller has represented Ohio's 7th District since 2023.

His May 2024 resolution condemning the administration's pause on certain arms transfers is the clearest statement on his record and the only one in the position band. The pause, he said, "on certain defense articles ready for imminent delivery to Israel without consulting Congress is a danger to Israel, the hostages still held by Hamas – including Americans, and a gift to a dastardly terrorist organization and its sympathizers." He continued: "Any daylight between the U.S. and Israel on military matters only risks the lives of the hostages, further emboldens Hamas and Iran-backed forces in the region by weakening Israel's negotiating hand at a pivotal moment and weakens Israel's efforts to protect its sovereignty and citizens."

His recorded votes appear as badges on this card.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes

Committees

House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Floor votes
H.R. 6126 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act2023-11-02 · Passed 226-196
✗ 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. 7217 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20242024-02-06 · Failed 250-180 (needed 2/3 under suspension)
✗ Voted Yes
supported sending 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
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.
Not sponsoringhas not backed this support bill
Notable actions

• 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

$40K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track

Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $15,000 · Republican Jewish Coalition: $25,000
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.Republican Jewish Coalition$25,000The Republican Jewish Coalition's PAC; it financially supports Republican candidates who reflect its priorities, including strong U.S. backing of 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.Republican Jewish CoalitionThe Republican Jewish Coalition's PAC; it financially supports Republican candidates who reflect its priorities, including strong U.S. backing of 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

“Any daylight between the U.S. and Israel on military matters only risks the lives of the hostages, further emboldens Hamas and Iran-backed forces in the region by weakening Israel's negotiating hand at a pivotal moment and weakens Israel's efforts to protect its sovereignty and citizens.”
Source ↗, 2024-05-10
Endorsements

AIPAC (2026 endorsement) · Republican Jewish Coalition (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, 2024-05-10] His release introducing a resolution condemning the pause on arms transfers, opened and confirmed word for word: the pause "on certain defense articles ready for imminent delivery to Israel without consulting Congress is a danger to Israel, the hostages still held by Hamas – including Americans, and a gift to a dastardly terrorist organization and its sympathizers. Any daylight between the U.S. and Israel on military matters only risks the lives of the hostages, further emboldens Hamas and Iran-backed forces in the region by weakening Israel's negotiating hand at a pivotal moment and weakens Israel's efforts to protect its sovereignty and citizens."
  • [After October 7, 2023-10-10] Co-introduced the Operation Swords of Iron Iron Dome Supplemental Appropriations Act, authorising $2 billion for Iron Dome, saying, as reported that "Israel has the absolute right to defend itself and its people from terrorists who do not believe it has the right to exist, and it must have the means to do so" (his release, cited twice). From the weeks right after October 7; not used on the card. Not opened.
  • [After October 7, 2023-11-16] Criticised the pairing of Israel aid with IRS cuts as "disgusting" (Jewish Insider). From the weeks right after October 7. Not opened. Worth noting the position: a Republican objecting to his own leadership's offset mechanism, not to the aid.
  • His recorded votes appear as badges on this card.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • No statement or documented position located.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [After October 7, 2023-10-10, reported] Characterised the October 7 attacks as a display of "savagery" involving killing, torture and kidnapping of civilians. From the weeks right after October 7.
  • [After October 7, 2023-10-19] The Guardian, opened and confirmed word for word, states in its opening: "Senator Lindsey Graham wants to see Gaza flattened. Congressman Max Miller said the laws of war should be swept aside." **That sentence is the newspaper's characterisation of him, not a quotation of his words**, and it appears in an article about several politicians. The body of the piece as opened contains only two mentions of him and no quotation from him, so nothing is quoted here.

⚠ **A phrase the research attributed to him could not be found at all.** The research reported that he expressed sentiments that Gaza should be "turned into a parking lot." That phrase **does not appear anywhere in the Guardian article cited for it**. Given our rule of 2026-08-12 that this class of material requires precision and firm attribution, it is not used, and the failure to locate it is recorded rather than passed over. If he said it, it needs its own source.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [After October 7, 2023-11-08, reported] Spoke on the House floor for the resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib. From the weeks right after October 7.
  • [Position, 2026-06-04] JNS reports that he was rebuked after accusing Rep. Tlaib of supporting a terrorist regime during a House debate; the research also cites a Fox News video of the exchange. Neither opened; the exchange concerns another member and is recorded rather than quoted.
  • ⚠ An advocacy page, islamicity.org, applies labels to him in its own headline. Advocacy sources are consulted, never card sources, and under the 2026-08-12 ruling this site describes behaviour rather than repeating anyone's labels. Nothing is drawn from it.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

  • [After October 7, 2023-10-31, reintroduced 2025-02-07] Co-led the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act, directing the Department of Education to adopt the IHRA definition (2023 release, 2025 reintroduction). Safety context, never an answer about U.S. weapons or funding.
  • [2023-12-13] Washington Free Beacon reporting on an incident directed at him, cited twice. Safety context.

Note for cross-reference

  • This is **Max Miller of Ohio's 7th District**. Earlier, our research wrongly offered his material to Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, alongside Rep. Carol Miller of West Virginia. Three sitting members named Miller, and the surname collision has already produced a wrong-person mix-up in our research.

Also in this race

  1. – Brian Poindexter (Democrat)

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