Brandon Gill

Republican · U.S. House, Texas District 26

Gill cosponsored a 2025 bill authorizing new U.S. money for joint defense programs with the government of Israel and extending U.S. weapons reserve stocks for Israel to 2029. His campaign platform states support for the government of Israel against Hamas. Nothing located has him speaking about U.S. aid.

Gill took his seat in January 2025 and added his name to the United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025 on April 29 of that year. He is one of about 180 cosponsors of a bill introduced by Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina with Rep. Donald Norcross of New Jersey. The bill authorizes $150 million a year from fiscal 2026 through 2030 for a new joint program with the government of Israel on countering unmanned systems, authorizes a further $50 million a year for joint work on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics and quantum technology, raises the spending caps on the existing joint anti-tunnel and counter-drone programs and runs them to the end of 2028, extends to January 1, 2029 the authority to place U.S. defense articles in reserve stocks for Israel, and orders the Pentagon to open a Defense Innovation Unit office in Israel. It also directs the Defense Department to seek the government of Israel's entry into the national technology and industrial base, the group of countries whose defense industries are treated as one for U.S. law, which at present is the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The bill has not become law.

In his own voice the record is thinner. His campaign platform says he firmly supports the right of the government of Israel to defend itself against Hamas and that the international community must denounce Hamas's terrorism; it says nothing about U.S. weapons, U.S. money or the terms on which either is sent. Asked on a candidate questionnaire whether the U.S. relationship with the government of Israel is important, he answered that it is unique and important and described that government as the first line of defense in the region. His congressional newsroom carries 65 releases between January 3, 2025 and August 17, 2026 and none of them mentions Israel, Gaza or foreign aid. The recorded votes on this record are not accompanied by any statement from him explaining them.

The one thing he has done in person is a trip. House travel disclosures record him in Tel Aviv from August 3 to August 10, 2025, on a delegation paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the lobbying group AIPAC, to meet Israeli government officials, military and religious leaders and tour sites tied to the conflict. AIPAC's political arm lists him among the candidates it is backing in 2026. Those are an organization's acts and a filing, not statements of his about what the United States should send.

Three recordings exist in which he is said to speak about Israel, Gaza or antisemitism, including an anti-war group's video of an exchange in which he is said to answer a question about U.S.-funded weapons. None of them can be read as text, so nothing said in them is used here; their addresses are on his research page for anyone who wants to watch them.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 2 of 2 recorded votes.

Research

Research for this card began on 2026-08-21, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless marked otherwise. His congressional newsroom was read in full, all 65 releases across five listing pages from January 3, 2025 to August 17, 2026, and the whole listing was searched for Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinian, Jewish, antisemitism, Iran and foreign aid. His campaign site and his candidate questionnaire were read. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07). Brandon Gill, a Republican, has represented Texas's 26th district, which takes in Denton, Wise and Cooke counties north of Dallas and Fort Worth, since January 3, 2025; he founded the DC Enquirer before running, and he is the 2026 Republican nominee for the seat. He was not in Congress before 2025, so there is no earlier federal record to read. This card replaces an older one-sentence summary; everything below was checked again from the sources.

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

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what the United States sends)

Not on the card, and why

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

Also in this race: Steven Shook (Democrat) · All Texas candidates.

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