But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Beth Van Duyne
- Backed with $23K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
Van Duyne introduced the Immediate Support for Israel Act in May 2024 to force delivery of U.S. aid and material to Israel, calling the halt on shipments "unprecedented" and saying there was "simply no excuse for this delay".
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Deep Dive
Van Duyne represents Texas’s 24th District and is running for re-election.
Her position on U.S. weapons is a bill she wrote. On May 9, 2024, read in full, she introduced H.R. 8295, the Immediate Support for Israel Act, "to force the Biden administration to deliver aid and material support passed by Congress to our ally Israel". Her words: "Weeks ago, Congress came together in a bipartisan manner to pass an aid package for Israel. In an unprecedented move, President Biden not only halted the shipment of aid but also unilaterally added conditions to that very same aid, defying Congressional intent. Israel is currently engaged in a war with a terrorist organization that is still holding over 100 civilian hostages. There is simply no excuse for this delay." She added that the administration "must comply with congressional intent, ensuring the aid and material support authorized by Congress and signed into law is immediately released to Israel".
So she opposes conditions on aid Congress has already passed, and wanted the shipments released.
In July 2022 she led a letter asking the president to reconsider a planned visit to East Jerusalem, which she said would reward the Palestinian Authority; that predates the current window and is her only located statement bearing on Palestinians. Much of her remaining record is campus antisemitism and immigration legislation, including a bill to deport non-citizens who take part in pro-terrorism gatherings, which the content rule places out of scope. Two earlier statements of hers sit on the research page. Her recorded votes and her 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
$23K 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]: She introduced H.R. 8295, the Immediate Support for Israel Act, "to force the Biden administration to deliver aid and material support passed by Congress to our ally Israel". Verbatim: "Weeks ago, Congress came together in a bipartisan manner to pass an aid package for Israel. In an unprecedented move, President Biden not only halted the shipment of aid but also unilaterally added conditions to that very same aid - defying Congressional intent. Israel is currently engaged in a war with a terrorist organization that is still holding over 100 civilian hostages. There is simply no excuse for this delay." And: "This administration must comply with congressional intent, ensuring the aid and material support authorized by Congress and signed into law is immediately released to Israel." Read on the page.
- 2023-10-31 [Months after October 7, 2023; on this page only]: On Fox Business she advocated passing a standalone Israel emergency assistance package.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- 2022-07-12 [Earlier record]: She led a congressional letter asking the president to reconsider a planned visit to East Jerusalem, characterising it as rewarding the Palestinian Authority and signalling support for "illegitimate efforts to claim East Jerusalem". Earlier record, and about diplomatic recognition rather than U.S. money.
- Nothing located in the current period on U.S. aid to Palestinians in either direction.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2023-10-07 [Months after October 7, 2023]: On social media she described the attack as "a travesty and another unjust act of war" (her page video).
- 2023-10-09 [Months after October 7, 2023]: Statement condemning the attacks, describing Israel's operation as a "necessary mission to eliminate the murderous terrorists of Hamas", and calling for freezing Iranian assets and strict sanctions. A related post about hostages is also in the sources.
- 2024-07-26 [Current position]: On Fox Business she criticised the administration's diplomatic posture and the vice-president's remarks on the conflict and on domestic demonstrations. A video with no retrievable text.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2024-05-09 [Current position]: Alongside the bill she used press statements and interviews to argue against conditional military aid to Israel.
- [Consulted]: A congressional voting tracker on an advocacy site is among the sources. An advocacy source stays visible here and never carries a card.
Safety and antisemitism
[Context only, never the answer to what America sends. Campus and immigration measures are named out of scope by the content rule.]
- 2022-01-21 [Earlier record]: After the hostage-taking at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville she introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning it as an antisemitic terrorist act, listed twice in the sources.
- 2023-11-16 [Months after October 7, 2023; out of scope]: In House proceedings she criticised faculty and administrators at Cornell University over campus antisemitism and called for removing taxpayer subsidies from institutions that fail to protect Jewish students.
- 2024-05-01 [Current position; out of scope]: She introduced the Hamas Supporters Have No Home Here Act, amending immigration law to deport foreign nationals involved in unlawful acts at pro-terrorism or antisemitic demonstrations.
What came back empty or unusable
- Four of thirteen sources are videos with no retrievable text; two are duplicates.
- No position located in the current period on U.S. aid to Palestinians.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Kevin Burge (Democrat)
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