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

Christopher R. Deluzio

Democrat · U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 17
?Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 6 tracked votes

By March 2026 Deluzio had cosponsored two bills to limit U.S. weapons transfers to the government of Israel. In July he wrote that Americans are “sick and tired of seeing our American dollars sent overseas to arm Israel’s military” and that he had voted to stop that funding.

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Deep Dive

Deluzio is a Democrat serving his second term in Pennsylvania’s 17th District, which covers Beaver County and part of Allegheny County. He is a Navy veteran of the Iraq war and sits on the House Armed Services Committee. He faces Republican Tony Guy on November 3, 2026.

He explained the 2026 co-sponsorships himself. He is one of 25 original cosponsors of the Ceasefire Compliance Act, and in March 2026 he signed on to the Block the Bombs Act, which would bar the transfer of several categories of bombs, bomb guidance kits and tank and artillery ammunition to the government of Israel unless Congress passes a law approving each specific transfer. He told the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle that he had waited because of the war with Iran, and that the point was who decides: “we should not be funding this war, either directly — if a supplemental request to continue Defense Department funding for the war would come to us — or indirectly, as the State Department did in bypassing Congress with selling new bombs to the Israelis. And the legislation here would stop that, to make clear that Congress has to make those decisions and give our assent or not to those kinds of sales.” He said the Ceasefire Compliance Act is limited to offensive weapons and tied to the phases of the ceasefire deal. On July 15, 2026 he wrote that he had voted yes on the Massie amendment “to stop America’s funding of Israel’s weapons of war”, saying the Netanyahu government “regularly flouts U.S. and International law” and that “we need a very different relationship”.

His earlier record points both ways, and he has explained that too. On February 6, 2024 he said his no vote on a standalone Israel security bill was about the way Republicans had written it, while stating that he remained “steadfast in supporting Israel’s fight against Hamas terrorists and its right to defend itself, pushing for substantial humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza, and advocating for a two-state solution”. On May 3, 2024, days after the spring supplemental passed, he led a letter with Rep. Jason Crow and 86 colleagues telling President Biden there was “sufficient evidence that Israel’s restrictions on the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid violate Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act”, a statute that bars U.S. security assistance and arms sales to a government that blocks American humanitarian aid. The letter urged the administration to consider tools “from refreshing the assurances to withholding specific arms transfers”, said the Israeli government was “risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance from the U.S.”, and said the assistance in the package just passed “should not be interpreted as a blank check”. The same letter said missile-defense funding was not affected and that the signers continued to support it.

On Gaza aid and on the shape of a settlement he has been steady. In August 2025 he and five other veteran members of Congress wrote to the Israeli ambassador asking Israel to “flood Gaza with humanitarian aid” so that scarce food could not be used as leverage. In September 2025 he was one of 47 House Democrats who asked the administration to recognise a Palestinian state. In October 2025 he welcomed the ceasefire and hostage agreement and said he hoped it would create “an enduring two-state peace”. He is a member of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism; his record on antisemitism and community safety, and the rest of what was read, are on the research page.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 6 tracked votes · Cosponsors the Block the Bombs Act

Committees

House Committee on Armed Services

Floor votes
H.R. 6126 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act2023-11-02 · Passed 226-196
✓ Voted No
voted against 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 No
voted against sending it
H.R. 7217 - Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 20242024-02-06 · Failed 250-180 (needed 2/3 under suspension)
✓ Voted No
voted against 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 Yes
voted to limit or block 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
Co-sponsorbacks this bill to restrict weapons transfers
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 some, but no more than half, of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 2 of 6 tracked votes.)

The money

$7K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track

Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
AIPAC PAC: $1,000 · DMFI: $6,430
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
AIPAC$1,000The 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.DMFI PAC$6,430Democratic Majority for Israel's PAC; calls itself the home for pro-Israel Democrats and backs Democratic candidates who support a strong U.S. alliance with 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.

In their words

“The American people are sick and tired of seeing our American dollars sent overseas to arm Israel’s military while Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government regularly flouts U.S. and International law. We need a very different relationship, and that’s why I voted ‘yes’ today on the Massie Amendment to stop America’s funding of Israel’s weapons of war.”
Source ↗, 2026-07-15
“my point of view is that we should not be funding this war, either directly — if a supplemental request to continue Defense Department funding for the war would come to us — or indirectly, as the State Department did in bypassing Congress with selling new bombs to the Israelis. And the legislation here would stop that, to make clear that Congress has to make those decisions and give our assent or not to those kinds of sales.”
Source ↗, 2026-03-15
“I don’t think the Congress should be funding and supporting this war. In fact, I think we should put an end to it, and that includes the State Department’s efforts to supply the Israelis in a process that should have gone through Congress.”
Source ↗, 2026-03-15
“I remain steadfast in supporting Israel’s fight against Hamas terrorists and its right to defend itself, pushing for substantial humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza, and advocating for a two-state solution with sovereignty for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”
Source ↗, 2024-02-06
“After two bloody years of war, this agreement may finally bring the hostages home, end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and create an enduring two-state peace,”
Source ↗, 2025-10-09

Research log

The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.

One search (run 2026-08-21) was read as a lead list for this card, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless marked otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Deluzio has represented PA-17 since January 2023, so his tracked votes are shown as badges on this card and are not re-counted here.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

  • [Position, 2026-07-15] Post on X after the House vote on the Massie amendment to H.R. 8595, as published in the Foundation for Middle East Peace’s compilation of members’ statements: “The American people are sick and tired of seeing our American dollars sent overseas to arm Israel’s military while Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government regularly flouts U.S. and International law. We need a very different relationship, and that’s why I voted ‘yes’ today on the Massie Amendment to stop America’s funding of Israel’s weapons of war.” The compilation dates the post 7/15/26. The amendment text, quoted on the same page, reads: “No funds for Israel. (a) None of the funds made available under this Act shall be obligated or expended for Israel. (b) The amount otherwise made available by this Act for ‘Foreign Military Financing Program’ is hereby reduced by $3,300,000,000.” The post itself was not opened on X.
  • [Position, 2026-03-15] Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, Toby Tabachnick, “Deluzio cites Iran war concerns in supporting limits on U.S. weapons sales to Israel”. He is one of 25 original cosponsors of the Ceasefire Compliance Act (H.R. 7645, introduced by Rep. Sean Casten in February 2026) and signed on to the Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565, introduced by Rep. Delia Ramirez in May 2025) in the week before March 15, 2026, almost ten months after its introduction. His words in the interview: “I am very concerned around this war with Iran, which I think has certainly been deadly… I worry that this war is going to even further destabilize the region. It’s a war I don’t think we should be fighting. And the Congress, frankly, I think, has failed to assert its war powers.” And: “my point of view is that we should not be funding this war, either directly — if a supplemental request to continue Defense Department funding for the war would come to us — or indirectly, as the State Department did in bypassing Congress with selling new bombs to the Israelis. And the legislation here would stop that, to make clear that Congress has to make those decisions and give our assent or not to those kinds of sales.” He said he is “very frustrated” with the State Department “having gone around the Congress”, and: “I don’t think the Congress should be funding and supporting this war. In fact, I think we should put an end to it, and that includes the State Department’s efforts to supply the Israelis in a process that should have gone through Congress.” On the Ceasefire Compliance Act he said it is limited to offensive weapons and “is tied to performance of the peace deal and the different phases of the peace deal that came from the ceasefire agreement”, and that he reads it as covering “conduct that the Israelis can control”. The article notes the Ceasefire Compliance Act contains language exempting defensive aid, intelligence cooperation and missile-defence supply, and that J Street, New Jewish Narrative and Foreign Policy for America back it. J Street is an American advocacy group that lobbies for a two-state settlement and for conditions on U.S. military aid.
  • [Position, read 2026-09-07] Independent confirmation of the two bills: BillTrack50’s record of H.R. 3565, “A BILL To provide for a limitation on the transfer of defense articles and defense services to Israel”, introduced 2025-05-21, sponsor Delia Ramirez, 82 sponsors listed including Deluzio. The Congress.gov cosponsor pages for H.R. 3565 and H.R. 7645 would not open here .
  • [Position, 2024-05-03] His own announcement of the letter he led with Rep. Jason Crow and 86 colleagues to President Biden. The letter’s words: “Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act prohibits the United States from providing security assistance or arms sales to any country when the President is made aware that the government ‘prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance’”; “there is sufficient evidence that Israel’s restrictions on the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid violate Section 620I”; “It is incumbent upon the Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense to begin the assessment and remediation process outlined in the memorandum and consider the variety of tools available to the administration to address these continued violations, from refreshing the assurances to withholding specific arms transfers”; “so long as Israel restricts, directly or indirectly, the facilitation of humanitarian aid delivery into Gaza, the Israeli government is risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance from the U.S.”; “The security assistance included in the recently passed security supplemental should not be interpreted as a blank check or as implicit approval of the Netanyahu government’s actions.” The letter also states that Section 620I and National Security Memorandum 20 “does not implicate U.S. funding for missile defense systems, including Iron Dome”, and that the signers “continue to strongly support providing such lifesaving defensive funding to Israel”. Jewish Insider reported it on 2024-05-06 and named J Street as supporting the letter.
  • [Position, 2024-02-06] His statement on his no vote on H.R. 7217, the standalone Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act: “We face tremendous security challenges at home at our southern border and across the globe—including in Israel, Gaza, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific. Yet House Republicans refuse to meet the moment and put country over party.” “I remain steadfast in supporting Israel’s fight against Hamas terrorists and its right to defend itself, pushing for substantial humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza, and advocating for a two-state solution with sovereignty for Israelis and Palestinians alike.” “Speaker Johnson’s bill plays political games with our national security and interests abroad, abandons the Ukrainians in their fight against Putin, and ignores problems at the southern border.”
  • [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Chris Deluzio and Summer Lee vote against ‘unconscionable’ GOP bill coupling Israel aid with IRS cuts”. Not on the card summary. The page is behind a subscription; the headline, the publication date and the summary line were readable, the article text was not.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

  • [Position, 2024-09-26] The Beacon Coalition, a Pittsburgh-area group that assesses candidates on antisemitism and Israel, published candidate assessments for Pennsylvania in 2024. Its entry for him records that he “voted for condemning Hamas, for funding Iron Dome, and for the Antisemitism Awareness Act”, that he “co-sponsored bills to stand with Israel and for Hamas to release the hostages”, that he has attended the Pittsburgh Jewish community’s weekly hostage vigils, and that in response to the group’s outreach he said: “I do not support BDS efforts.” A third party’s account of him, with one reported sentence of his own; kept here rather than on the card.
  • [Undated; read 2026-09-07] The lead list records endorsements from the Jewish Democratic Council of America in his 2022 and 2024 campaigns. The group is a national organisation that supports Democratic candidates and describes itself as pro-Israel. Its endorsements page was returned by the lead list but the 2022 and 2024 rounds were not located on it during this read, so the claim is recorded as reported and not confirmed.
  • [Reaction window, 2023-11-08] A joint statement with more than 20 Democratic colleagues rejecting the phrase “from the river to the sea”, published by Rep. Marilyn Strickland; his name appears in the signatory list. Not on the card summary.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

Earlier record

  • Nothing located before October 7, 2023. He took office in January 2023 and the lead list returned no statement of his on this question from his first nine months, or from his 2022 campaign.

The race

  • [Undated; read 2026-09-07] Ballotpedia: “Incumbent Chris Deluzio and Tony Guy are running in the general election for U.S. House Pennsylvania District 17 on November 3, 2026.” He advanced from the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026, and in 2024 he defeated Rob Mercuri.

Not on the card, and why

  • Everything dated between October 7, 2023 and January 25, 2024: the Post-Gazette pieces of October 7 and November 2, 2023, the November 8, 2023 joint statement, the November 22, 2023 hostage-deal statement, the October 25, 2023 resolution vote and the October 27, 2023 Tree of Life resolution. Recorded above with their dates.
  • The February 5, 2025 Facebook post: the address does not open, so it is described and not linked or quoted.
  • The Beacon Coalition entry and the reported council endorsements: other people’s accounts of him, kept out of the card summary.
  • The July 2025 Federation meeting: the words quoted in the report are the Federation director’s, not his.
  • His remarks on the war with Iran and on war powers: they are quoted in full above and summarised in the deep dive, because they are his stated reason for signing the two bills, but the fifty words at the top of the card stay on what the United States sends to the government of Israel.
  • The missile-defence carve-out in the May 2024 letter and in the Ceasefire Compliance Act: quoted above and stated in the deep dive, and kept out of the fifty words.
  • Rep. Summer Lee’s, Sen. Fetterman’s, Sen. McCormick’s and Gov. Shapiro’s statements, which share two of the pages read here: their own records, not his.

Sources read for this card (address; opened or could not open; date read)

  • https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/deluzio-cites-iran-war-concerns-in-supporting-limits-on-u-s-weapons-sales-to-israel/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://fmep.org/resource/members-on-the-record-re-ending-aid-to-israel-re-7-15-26-house-vote-on-massie-amendment/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-deluzio-crow-lead-86-members-letter-urging-biden-enforce-us-law-and (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-vote-statement-hr-7217 (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-shares-support-biden-administration-diplomatic-work-broker-israel (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-moulton-houlahan-ryan-panetta-vindman-urge-israel-expand-humanitarian (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-statement-israeli-hamas-hostage-deal-and-humanitarian-pause-agreement (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://deluzio.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://houlahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4728 (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://casten.house.gov/media/press-releases/casten-sherman-lead-144-house-democrats-urging-trump-to-retract-gaza-statements (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-rep-khanna-leads-historic-letter-calling-us-recognition-palestinian (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://pressley.house.gov/2023/10/27/pressley-lee-colleagues-introduce-resolution-to-honor-victims-of-tree-of-life-synagogue-shooting-condemn-antisemitism/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://strickland.house.gov/2023/11/08/media-press-releases-strickland-signs-joint-statement-rejecting-use-river-sea-amid-ongoing-hamas/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://jewishinsider.com/2024/05/democrats-israel-military-aid-gaza-u-s-law-violations/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/pennsylvania-lawmakers-react-to-ceasefire-deal/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/pittsburghers-join-national-emergency-mission-to-d-c-amid-rising-antisemitism/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://beaconcoalition.org/pennsylvania-2024-candidate-assessments/ (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1895066 and https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1918283 (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Deluzio (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://ballotpedia.org/Pennsylvania's_17th_Congressional_District_election,_2026 (opened; 2026-09-07)
  • https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2023/11/02/israel-aid-irs-cuts-chris-deluzio-summer-lee/stories/202311020097 and https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2023/10/07/israel-attack-fetterman-casey-reschenthaler-deluzio/stories/202310070077 (opened to the headline and date only; subscription pages; 2026-09-07)
  • https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3565/cosponsors (could not open ; 2026-09-07)
  • https://www.facebook.com/RepChrisDeluzio/posts/i-will-not-be-voting-to-send-americans-to-occupy-gaza-and-kick-gazans-out-of-the/621938947443056/ (could not open; 2026-09-07)
  • https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ngo-action-news-9-may-2024/ and https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/122796/House_Bipartisan_Task_Force_for_Combating_Anti_Semitism.html (returned by the lead list; do not name him as a speaker; not used)
  • This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-07, not a claim that no other statement exists.

Also in this race

  1. – Tony Guy (Republican)

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