But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Monica De La Cruz
- Backed with $28K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC +1 more
Nothing readable since January 2024 has De La Cruz stating a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians; her campaign platform does not reach it. Her 2023 statements are on the research page.
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Deep Dive
De La Cruz represents Texas's 15th District, a strip of South Texas running from the Rio Grande Valley north toward San Antonio, and she is the sitting member.
Her recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card. Her own explanations of them were given in the weeks after the October 2023 attack, a period this site keeps off cards, and they are on the research page in full.
One later item is reported and cannot be read. She is said to have spoken on the House floor on February 6, 2024, repeating that the October 7 attack was the worst against Jews since the Holocaust and that the United States must never stop working to bring the hostages home. The only address for the speech is a video page that serves no transcript, so nothing from it is quoted, and a hostage-return commitment is in any case not a position on what the United States sends.
Nothing located at any date has her addressing U.S. humanitarian aid for Palestinians, and her campaign platform is about the border, the economy and South Texas, with no foreign policy on it.
If you want her current position in her own words, you are better placed to get it than we are. Ask De La Cruz directly, or at a forum, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in her own words.
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
$28K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
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
- Nothing located in the position band (2024-01-26 onward) in readable form.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] Her own House release on the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which she co-sponsored: "This supplemental aid package is vital in providing the critical funds necessary for Israel to protect the Jewish people and their homeland as they defend against terrorism". Not on the card summary. This is also her explanation of one of the votes badged on this card; under the standing rule the badge stands and the explanation lives here.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-10] Her House release signing on as an original co-sponsor of a resolution supporting Israel's right to defend itself and calling for U.S. assistance in rescuing hostages held in Gaza. Not on the card summary.
- [Position, 2024-02-06, carrier unreadable] A House floor speech is reported in which she said the October 7 attack was "the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust" and that the U.S. "must never stop working to bring [hostages] home". The only carrier offered is a YouTube page that answers requests with a player shell and no transcript, so the wording is unverified and unquoted on the card. Even confirmed, this is hostage advocacy rather than a transfers position.
- Her recorded votes on the tracked bills appear as badges on this card, with the grounding for each in the record section rather than in prose.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located at any date. No statement, vote explanation or campaign material addressing U.S. humanitarian funding for Palestinians, the aid pipeline, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency was found under her name.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-10] The same release characterizes the October 7 attack as a "massacre" committed by "barbarians" and describes Israel as "an essential pillar of stability in an incredibly volatile region, safeguarding against radical Islamic extremists with ambitions targeting American soil". Not on the card summary.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-09] Her statement after her McAllen district office was vandalized characterizes the attack as "the single largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust" by "Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists" she calls "savages". Not on the card summary.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] Her statement on co-sponsoring a resolution condemning student groups supporting Hamas: "Today, Congress condemned unthinkable support for Hamas by college students on campuses across America and showed our support for Israel remains unwavering" (same release). Not on the card summary.
- Nothing located on lobbying organizations in her own words at any date. Tracked funding totals appear as a badge on this card.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-10] "Zero tolerance for anti-semitism" in South Texas; outreach to local rabbis; "'Never Again' is not just a slogan. It is our personal commitment to ensuring that atrocities against Jews never repeat" (release). She also connected the attacks to border security and ports of entry in the same release. Not on the card summary.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-09] After the vandalism at her district office, which she attributed to "pro-Hamas activists": "My support for Israel and the Jewish community is, always has been, and always will be unwavering. I make no apologies for standing firmly against anti-Semitism. These vandals will not intimidate or silence me" (her release; also reported by the Washington Examiner). Not on the card summary.
Where else the absence was checked
- [Consulted, read 2026-08-21] Her campaign issues page. The rendered page yields 839 characters of visible text, a menu and contact material, with topic sub-pages on the border and the economy surfaced by search. No mention of Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid or foreign policy anywhere on it. The word count of what was read is stated per the shells-are-not-sources rule.
- [Consulted, read 2026-08-21] Two live searches for statements from 2025 and 2026 under her name on these questions returned her House site's general pages and nothing in scope.
- Her prior record on this site, a one-line summary that she supports Israel's right to defend itself and has voted for aid packages, is replaced by this card.
Race and status context
- Sitting representative, nominated in one of this cycle's most competitive districts on this site's list. Her opponents' cards carry their own records.
- Identity note: every substantive carrier is her own House site or names her directly; no material from Senator Ted Cruz, the standing same-surname watch for this record, appeared in our search, and none is used.
Also in this race
- ✗Supports Bobby Pulido (Democrat)
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