Brian Babin
Babin backs U.S. security assistance to Israel, in a statement headed "Babin Stands With Israel" whose text his House site does not serve. He is reported to have said Gaza should receive no U.S. tax dollars, opposing American aid to Palestinians.
Babin represents Texas’s 36th District. He holds two positions that point in opposite directions on money, and both are on the card because they are about different recipients.
His statement on the Israeli side of the ledger is a House release of April 20, 2024 headed "Babin Stands With Israel", issued after House action on the foreign aid supplemental packages. The page returns 200 and its title is all his site serves: it carries no body text at all. The first search reports that he argued supporting security assistance to Israel was critical to U.S. national security, and quotes him saying combatting Iran and supporting Israel helps prevent the next 9/11, framing the wider conflict as a battle against radical Islamic terror. None of that wording could be confirmed and it is rendered attributively here.
On the other side of the ledger, the first search reports that in a June 2024 interview on One America News he said Gaza should receive no U.S. tax dollars. Its only source page is a video with no retrievable text, so that wording is unconfirmed too.
Those are not in tension with each other: he supports what America sends to the Israeli government and opposes what it sends to Palestinians. The card names both recipients explicitly, because a sentence about cutting money that does not say whose money is going where can be read exactly backwards.
Recorded votes on the tracked bills are shown separately on this card.
Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- 2024-04-20 [Current position; card-leading]: Official statement arguing that supporting security assistance to Israel was critical to U.S. national security: "Combatting Iran and supporting Israel helps prevent the next 9/11 while mitigating radical Islamic terror in the region."
- 2024-06-16 [Current position; card-leading; DIFFERENT RECIPIENT]: In an interview on One America News he discussed U.S. foreign assistance to the region and argued that Gaza should receive "zero U.S. tax dollars". The first search names OAN; the nearest source page it attached is a video with no retrievable text, so the interview itself is not linked and the wording is attributed without a link.
⚠ **This is the case the direction rule exists for.** Cutting U.S. money to Palestinians and cutting U.S. weapons to the government of Israel are opposite acts. He does the first and opposes the second. The card names both recipients in the same breath so neither can be read as the other.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2023-10-26 [Months after October 7, 2023; on this page only]: Statement characterising Israel’s military operation as a "just war against Hamas" and stating that "Israel is the only democracy in a sea of dictatorships in the Middle East".
- 2024-04-20 [Current position]: In the same April statement he framed the broader conflict as a battle against "radical Islamic terror" and "Middle Eastern terrorists", asserting that backing Israel is essential to countering Iranian influence.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- Three sources found are videos (one, two, and the OAN-adjacent clip above) with no retrievable text, and two are newsletter permalinks.
Safety and antisemitism
- Nothing located.
What came back empty or unusable
- The "zero U.S. tax dollars" remark has no linkable source page. It is the more unusual half of his position and the half a reader is most likely to want to check.
- No statement located on UNRWA by name.
Also in this race: Rhonda Hart (Democrat) · All Texas candidates.
See the full record →But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. Every claim on this page goes through at least two verification steps. Open the interactive card for votes, funding and contact details.