Pat Fallon

Republican · U.S. House, Texas District 4

In a June 2024 op-ed Fallon wrote that withholding a shipment of heavy bombs degrades our ally Israel's ability to defend itself and undermines members of Congress who overwhelmingly support security assistance for Israel. His record backs U.S. military aid to the government of Israel.

Pat Fallon is a Republican who has represented Texas's 4th District, the North Texas and northeast Texas seat running from Frisco and Rockwall up to Sherman and Texarkana, since January 2021. He sits on the House Armed Services Committee, where he chairs the Military Personnel Subcommittee, and on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He faces Democrat Jason Pearce on November 3, 2026.

His fullest statement on what the United States sends is the op-ed he published in RealClearPolitics on June 27, 2024, after the Biden administration paused a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel. He wrote that the pause was made without notice to Congress, which had passed $14.3 billion in emergency aid for Israel, and that it degrades our ally Israel's ability to defend itself and undermines the work of Republican and Democratic members of Congress who overwhelmingly support security assistance for Israel. He called the refusal to send the agreed weapons politically motivated, wrote that it left Israel more vulnerable to Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah, and urged Congress to pass legislation giving itself the power to override the hold. Two months later, in an August 2024 op-ed in The Hill about the cost of intercepting Iranian drones and missiles, he wrote that American forces had again deployed to help defend Israel and put the cost of Israel's defense in the April 2024 Iranian attack at roughly $550 million, which he measured against the Israel supplemental Congress had passed that month. In September 2024 he was one of thirty-eight Republicans who signed a letter to President Biden that named the restoration of funding to the Palestinian Authority and to the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees among the acts they said had emboldened Iran, and that criticised what the signers called a weekslong, partial arms embargo on Israel. The wording there is the signers' collective wording, not a statement he made alone. Nothing found from him since June 2024 states a position on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel in his own words, and he issued no statement on the July 2026 amendment vote shown on this card.

On the war and the alliance he has spoken more recently. At a Hudson Institute event on February 10, 2026 he said of Prime Minister Netanyahu's conduct of the war that "He won. Israel could obliterate its neighbors but chooses not to. Why? Because they're a moral democracy, and no one around them can make that same claim," and that he had privately worried Netanyahu was going too hard and concluded he was not. In May 2021, before the current war, he introduced a resolution declaring Israel a crucial ally and rejecting hostility to the State of Israel in all forms, saying that he was proud to stand with the sovereign state of Israel.

He has also acted on campus protest and on antisemitism. In March 2025 he led four colleagues in a letter asking the Secretary of State and the Attorney General to investigate possible ties between anti-Israel campus organizations and Hamas, and in August 2025 he and Rep. Keith Self wrote to the Plano Independent School District board asking it to act on antisemitism in its schools. At a meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group that also spends heavily in U.S. elections, on October 1, 2024, the Guardian reported that he thanked the group for its primary spending against two Democrats who had called for a ceasefire in Gaza: "I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for firing Jamaal Bowman, and even more so, Miss Cori Bush. Great work."

Nothing was found from him, in either direction, on United States funding for humanitarian aid to Palestinians or for rebuilding Gaza, beyond the collective letter language above. His campaign site lists fifteen issues and none of them is Israel, Gaza or foreign aid. His remarks about Iran, the television appearances we could not watch, and everything else that was read are on the research page.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

Our research began on 2026-08-21 with a search for sources, and its results were treated as leads rather than as evidence. Every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless the entry says otherwise. His own newsroom was read year by year from 2023 to 2026 across press releases, op-eds, letters and in-the-news items, and his campaign site was read as well. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07). Fallon has represented TX-04 since January 2021, so his recorded votes appear as badges on this card and are not re-counted here. Nothing dated between October 2023 and January 2024 was located for him.

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 a position on what America sends)

Iran (recorded here because it is not the question this card answers)

The race

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

Also in this race: Jason Pearce (Democrat) · All Texas candidates.

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