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

Scott Perry

Republican · U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 10
✗Supported sending weapons or funding in 4 of 5 tracked votes

Perry pressed the Secretary of State on why weapons were withheld and conditions put on Israel but not Ukraine, and calls himself "one of the most vehement defenders in Congress of the State of Israel". He voted against the April 2024 package pairing Israel aid with Gaza humanitarian aid.

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Deep Dive

Perry represents Pennsylvania's 10th District around Harrisburg and York, and he is the sitting member.

His votes point both ways and he has explained the exception himself. He voted for the standalone Israel aid bills and against the April 2024 package, and said in a statement that he voted against that bill due to what he described as funding for Hamas, referring to its humanitarian aid funding: "I have been and remain one of the most vehement defenders in Congress of the State of Israel. I staunchly support her right to defend herself and her people... I have grievous concerns, however, about provisions in the recent House funding bill that also allocates Billions to Hamas". He missed the July 2026 vote on the amendment to cut military aid.

In May 2024 he took the other half of his position to the administration, questioning Secretary Blinken at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing over the withholding of weapons meant to deter Israel's operation in Rafah, asking why conditions were imposed on Israel that were not placed on Ukraine.

Nothing located has him addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians except as the reason he voted against the April 2024 package. His record on antisemitism-related conduct, including a campaign social media incident in June 2024 that his campaign deleted after inquiries, is documented on the research page.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 4 of 5 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 No
voted against 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
– Did not vote
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

• Former Freedom Caucus chair. Voted Yes on first weapons package (Nov 2023), No on combined $26.38B Israel/Ukraine/Taiwan package (April 2024), then Yes on H.R. 8369 bomb delivery bill (May 2024). The lobby for the government of Israel paused fundraising for Perry after his No vote but did not withdraw their endorsement. Perry stated his objection was to humanitarian aid provisions he described as "funding for Hamas."

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 4 of 5 tracked votes.)

The money

Targeted with $26K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (2024); $13K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track

Career signals
Endorsed by a group we track that supports U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel
Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $10,000 · Republican Jewish Coalition: $2,500
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
AIPAC$10,000The 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$2,500The 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.
Money spent against them
Independent expenditures opposing this candidate: advertising and other spending made to defeat them, without the candidate's involvement or consent. DMFI reported 1 independent expenditure opposing this candidate on 2024-10-22, totalling $26K. This counts only the five lobbying groups we track, so it is a floor on what was spent against this candidate, not a total. Each expenditure is counted because the committee itself named this candidate as the target on its FEC filing. These lobbying groups often spend along party lines, or to protect an incumbent they back, so this is not by itself a reading of the candidate's position.
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

“I have been and remain one of the most vehement defenders in Congress of the State of Israel. I staunchly support her right to defend herself and her people by responding to the heinous and unprovoked attacks by Hamas on Oct 7th and beyond.”
Source ↗, 2024-05-23
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 on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card and point both ways: for the standalone bills, against the April 2024 package, no vote recorded on the July 2026 cutting amendment. The grounding for each sits in the record section.
  • [Position, 2024-05-23] Jewish Insider. Opened and confirmed word for word: "Perry said in a statement that he voted against the bill due to what he described as funding for Hamas, referring to humanitarian aid funding", and his own words: "I have been and remain one of the most vehement defenders in Congress of the State of Israel. I staunchly support her right to defend herself and her people by responding to the heinous and unprovoked attacks by Hamas on Oct 7th and beyond. I have grievous concerns, however, about provisions in the recent House funding bill that also allocates Billions to Hamas..." This is his own explanation of the hr8034 badge.
  • [Position, 2024-05-22] His House site's account of the Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, titled "Scott Perry to Blinken: Why Put Conditions on Israel, but Not Ukraine?". Opened and read: the page reproduces coverage of his questioning of Secretary Blinken over weapons withheld to deter the Rafah operation. The sentence our search attributed to the hearing, "You can't support Israel at the same time demanding that Israel support Hamas", is NOT on this page as read, so it is not quoted anywhere on this card; the hearing's substance is stated from what the page carries.
  • [Position, 2024-04-25, carrier does not open] A FOX43 interview is reported in which he said he has "voted for aid for Israel and support for Israel every single time" and "I'm not interested in voting to help Hamas". The address, https://www.fox43.com/article/news/politics/elections/candidates/foreign-aid-israel-ukraine-scott-perry-janelle-stelson/521-1b2f04ec-e79c-4b2c-a234-46c4e9deba6e, returns 403 on every attempt. The substance matches his verified Jewish Insider statement; the FOX43 wordings stay unquoted here.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

  • His only located engagement is oppositional: the April 2024 vote explanation above frames the package's Gaza humanitarian provisions as allocating billions to Hamas. Stated on the card in his own quoted words.

Characterization of the conflict

  • [Position, 2024-10-07] His House site's account of a One America News interview: the conflict as part of an Iran-funded effort, "Hamas needs to lay down their arms", Israel wanting to live peacefully among its neighbors. Opened; Iran material stays out of the card summary under the standing rule.
  • [Prior, 2016-12-28] His statement on the UN Security Council settlements vote: the abstention served to "isolate and delegitimize Israel" and drew a "false equivalence... between terrorist acts funded by the Palestinian Authority and Israeli settlement building". Prior band.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • The Jewish Insider piece above sits in that outlet's coverage of the pro-Israel lobby's engagement with this race. Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.

Safety and antisemitism (context, behavior described per the standing rule)

  • [Prior, 2021-06-11 and 2021-07-01] After his Pennsylvania Leadership Conference speech used Nazi comparisons, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Greater Harrisburg publicly requested he repudiate the remarks. The federation's own release; his response is not recorded in our search results.
  • [Position, 2024-05, reported] During a closed-door House briefing on campus antisemitism he is reported to have said "replacement theory is real" and to have called the Ku Klux Klan "decidedly, unabashedly racist and antisemitic" and the "military wing of the Democratic Party". No direct carrier was supplied for the briefing remarks themselves; recorded as reported.
  • [Position, 2024-06-25 to 2024-06-28] His campaign's Facebook account posted an image depicting stereotyped Jewish bankers playing Monopoly on people's backs, captioned "Says it all..."; after media inquiries the campaign deleted it and said it was unaware of the image's origin and removed it out of concern. Reported by Jewish Insider, the Pennsylvania Independent, and republished by the DCCC (a party committee's copy, noted as such). The behavior and the campaign's response are described; no label is applied, per the standing rule.

Race and status context

  • Sitting representative, nominated, in one of this cycle's most competitive districts on this site's list; his 2024 opponent is running again and her card carries her own record.

Also in this race

  1. ✗ Janelle Stelson (Democrat)

All Pennsylvania candidates.

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