But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Brian Babin
- Backed with $23K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
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.
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Deep Dive
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. An initial 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, an initial 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.
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
- 2024-04-20 [Current position]: 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; 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". An initial 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
- –No Position Found Rhonda Hart (Democrat)
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