Scott Fitzgerald

Deep Dive

Scott Fitzgerald was elected to the House in 2020 and represents Wisconsin's 5th District, which covers Milwaukee's western suburbs, all of Jefferson County and part of Dodge County. He led the Wisconsin State Senate as majority leader before that, and he served twenty-seven years in the Army Reserve. He sits on the Financial Services Committee and on the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust. He advanced from the Republican primary on August 11, 2026 and is running on November 3, 2026 against the Democrat Andrew Beck, the only other candidate in the district.

What he wants the United States to send is plainest in March 2024. On March 21, after Speaker Mike Johnson said he intended to invite the Israeli prime minister to address Congress, Fitzgerald said he had been organizing Republicans that week to sign a letter asking for the invitation, and added that “As Congress debates additional funding to Israel, it is important that we not lose sight of our unwavering commitment to Israel’s long-term security and promoting American interests in the region.” His office says he then led fifty members of the House Republican Conference in signing that letter to the Speaker, and the letter itself is published on his official site.

He returned to the subject twice more that spring. After a Republican delegation visited Israel in early April he said he had asked the prime minister in person to come and speak, and that “Congress must remain steadfast in our support of one of our greatest allies as Israel fights to defend itself against terrorism and bring home the hostages,” and when the address was confirmed in May he said “I believe it is of the utmost importance that members of Congress receive an update on Israel's fight against Hamas and mission to bring home the hostages—some of whom are U.S. citizens,”. Both statements are about American support in general terms. Neither names a weapons system, a dollar figure or a condition.

On American money for Palestinians there is nothing. His congressional newsroom, his official issues pages and his campaign site say nothing about humanitarian funding for Gaza, about the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, or about the aid pipeline, in either direction.

He is a member of the House Republican Israel Caucus, one of fifteen caucuses his official site lists for him. His newsroom carries no statement of his about any of the votes recorded on this card, which is why none of them is described here in his own words.

What he has said about Iran, the bill he introduced on the National Education Association's federal charter, and everything else our research found are on his research page.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes

The money

$25K 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.

Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-20 unless the entry says otherwise. His congressional newsroom was read in full: 320 items across all 32 pages of the press release listing and 34 items across the in-the-news listing, every title and summary checked against this subject and every match opened. His official issues index and his campaign site were read in full. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. His recorded House votes and his recorded positions on the two tracked bills are shown in this card's record section and are not restated here.

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

• [Position, 2024-03-21] His statement after Speaker Mike Johnson said he planned to invite the Israeli prime minister to address Congress. The statement reads in full: “I am encouraged to hear that Speaker Mike Johnson plans to invite Prime Minister Netanyahu to deliver a joint address to Congress, as Israel fights to defend itself and bring home the hostages,” and then “I’ve been organizing members from the Republican Conference this week to sign onto a letter to Speaker Johnson to formally request this action be taken. As Congress debates additional funding to Israel, it is important that we not lose sight of our unwavering commitment to Israel’s long-term security and promoting American interests in the region.” The two spans are separated in the release by “said Rep. Fitzgerald.” and are kept apart here. This is the single sentence of his that speaks directly to what the United States sends, and it is what the card front carries.
• [Position, 2024-04-05] His statement after speaking with the Israeli prime minister during a congressional visit to Israel: “I appreciate Prime Minister Netanyahu taking the time to field questions from us members while we were on a congressional visit in Israel, and I am encouraged to hear him agree to deliver a Joint Address to Congress. Congress must remain steadfast in our support of one of our greatest allies as Israel fights to defend itself against terrorism and bring home the hostages,”. The release's own background paragraph reads: “Congressman Scott Fitzgerald led 50 members from the House Republican Conference to join a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson requesting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be invited to give a joint address to Congress.”
• [Position, 2024-05-25] His statement after the Speaker confirmed the address: “I'm pleased to hear Speaker Johnson confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to deliver a joint address to Congress. When I was in Israel earlier this year I asked the prime minister myself if he would come speak toCongress, to which he said he would. I also sent a letter with 50 of my colleagues earlier this year urging the Speaker to invite the prime minister to give an address. I believe it is of the utmost importance that members of Congress receive an update on Israel's fight against Hamas and mission to bring home the hostages—some of whom are U.S. citizens,”. The run-together “speak toCongress” is how the page prints it.
• [Position, 2024; the document's own date could not be read] The letter itself, at https://fitzgerald.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/fitzgerald.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/israel%20letter.pdf . The address returns the file, but the file is a scan of the signed pages with no text layer, so its wording could not be read here and nothing is quoted from it. Our research reported it as dated March 22, 2024 and attributed three sentences to it, among them the sentence about additional funding that the card carries. That sentence is his own and is verified character-exact in his March 21, 2024 release above; the other two are not verified anywhere and nothing is built on them. Readers can open the file and read the scan for themselves.
• Nothing located in which he discusses the dollar figure in the United States and Israel memorandum of understanding, any condition on the money, any particular munition, or any of the votes recorded in this card's record section.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

• Nothing located at any date, in either direction. The 320 press releases, the 34 in-the-news items, the issues index and the campaign site carry no statement about humanitarian funding for Gaza, about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, about the aid pipeline or about the American pier. The only refugee items in his newsroom, his response to reports about two Afghan refugees charged with crimes and his tour of Fort McCoy, concern Afghans resettled in Wisconsin and name no Palestinians.

Characterization of the conflict

• [Position, 2024-03-07] His statement on President Biden's State of the Union address, published by Urban Milwaukee, which reproduces his own release. The in-scope sentence: “The president touched on Israel this evening, but he forgets, his administration back-tracked Trump-era maximum pressure polices that deterred Iran and its proxies—like Hamas.” The misspelling of “polices” is the page's own. The rest of the statement is about the southern border and about the president's fitness, and is not used. Our research printed the sentence with “policies” corrected; the page does not carry that spelling.
• [Position, 2025-06-13] His statement on Israel's strike against Iran: “I strongly support Israel’s right to defend itself in the face of escalating threats from Iran, which is the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism.” And: “President Trump and Secretary Rubio have made clear that the United States was not involved in the planning or execution of these attacks. However, our commitment to Israel’s security remains firm.” And: “I’ve consistently supported efforts to prevent a nuclear Iran, and I stand with President Trump in his efforts to restore stability in the region.” The statement is about Iran throughout and is not on the card summary for that reason; it is recorded here in full.
• [Position, 2025-06-21] His statement on the American strikes against Iran, which names Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan and argues the strikes were within the president's constitutional authority. About Iran, and about war powers; nothing in it concerns what the United States sends to the government of Israel.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

• [Position, 2025-06-17] Rep. Claudia Tenney's release announcing a resolution supporting Israel's strikes to end Iran's nuclear capabilities lists “Scott Fitzgerald (WI-5)” among fourteen additional cosponsors. The release is another member's document and every quoted word in it belongs to Rep. Tenney or to Rep. Brad Sherman; Fitzgerald is not quoted. A cosponsorship is a fact about him, and it is recorded here; the resolution's subject is Iran, so nothing from it is on the card.
• [Position; the page carries no date and was read 2026-09-20] His official committees and caucuses page lists the House Republican Israel Caucus among fifteen caucuses, alongside the Republican Study Committee, the Friends of Ireland Caucus, the Baltic Caucus and others. The page states no position and describes no activity in the caucus.
• No statement of his about donations from any organization on this subject was located, and no Israel-related organization appears anywhere on his campaign site.
• [Reaction window, October 2023; wrong person] Our research reported two October 2023 statements on a Facebook page it called “Rep. Scott Fitzgerald Facebook Page”: an argument that Congress must act “to give Israel the tools it needs to defend itself”, and the sentence “We must show Israel our unequivocal support and condemn any form of antisemitism”, dated October 12, 2023. The addresses it gave are https://www.facebook.com/VoteBalkcom/posts/yesterday-i-was-proud-to-co-sponsor-and-vote-for-unanimous-passage-of-house-reso/334989172442315/ and https://www.facebook.com/JohnRoseforTN/posts/we-must-show-israel-our-unequivocal-support-and-condemn-any-form-of-antisemitism/890473555783116/ . Neither is his page: the first is a Georgia campaign page and the second belongs to Rep. John Rose of Tennessee, whose own page carries the sentence in its address. Both refused to open in any case. Neither statement is treated as his, and both dates would keep them out of the card summary regardless.

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

• [Position, 2025-07-24] His release introducing the STUDENT Act with Senator Cynthia Lummis, a bill to rewrite the National Education Association's federal charter. His own quoted words in that release are about the union and about education: “The NEA long ago transformed from an educational association into a political machine, pushing a progressive agenda that puts activists ahead of students’ needs,” and “The STUDENT Act reins in NEA’s federal charter, restores accountability, and demands a return to its original purpose: educating, not indoctrinating, American children.” The words about the union's resolution cutting ties with the Anti-Defamation League belong to Senator Lummis, who said the resolution “is abhorrent and does nothing to stem the rising tide of antisemitic incidents we’ve witnessed nationwide” and that federal charters should not go to “unions that push divisive and antisemitic ideologies.” Our research attributed both phrases to the two of them jointly; on the page they are hers alone. Nothing here is an answer about what America sends, and the words are not his.
• No statement of his about antisemitism in his own words was located anywhere in his newsroom, his issues pages or his campaign site.

What the campaign site and own pages say

• [Read 2026-09-20] His campaign site, a single page with sections headed Meet Scott, The Issues and Connect. The issues section covers socialism, the economy and small business, the border and national security, law enforcement, veterans, the right to life and the Second Amendment. A case-insensitive search of the whole page for israel, gaza, palestin, hamas, antisemit, jewish, foreign aid, middle east, unrwa and aipac returns nothing.
• [Read 2026-09-20] His official issues index lists eight subjects: Inflation, Agriculture, Veterans, Health, Energy, Education, Jobs & Economy and Election Integrity. There is no foreign policy or national defense issues page on his official site.
• [Read 2026-09-20] His official committees and caucuses page: Financial Services, where he sits on the Financial Institutions and the Housing and Insurance subcommittees; and the Judiciary, where he chairs the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust and sits on the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet.
• [Read 2026-09-20] His statements on the two defense authorization bills of this Congress, in September 2025 and in December 2025. Both were read in full because a defense bill is where cooperation with the government of Israel is often authorized. Neither mentions Israel at all; they describe pay, the border, missile defense for the United States and the removal of diversity programs.

The race

• [Read 2026-09-20] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Wisconsin's 5th District: “Incumbent Scott Fitzgerald and Andrew Beck are running in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 5 on November 3, 2026.” The two names are the whole field; Ballotpedia prints its own caution that a candidate list may not be complete. Wisconsin's partisan primary was held on August 11, 2026, and both men advanced unopposed. This agrees with the record, which holds the same two candidates.
• [Read 2026-09-20] WUWM's voter guide for the district, published July 13, 2026 and updated August 12, 2026, names the same two candidates and says Fitzgerald did not respond to its questions. The other candidate's record belongs on his own card.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

• The Wisconsin Elections Commission's own certified list of candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot. The Commission's site at https://elections.wi.gov/candidates/federal-candidates refused ordinary retrieval, and the list itself could not be located at an address that opened, so the field above is stated from Ballotpedia and from the public guide instead.
• The text of the letter to the Speaker at https://fitzgerald.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/fitzgerald.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/israel%20letter.pdf . The file opens; it is a scan with no readable text.
• The Senate release on the STUDENT Act at https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-fitzgerald-introduce-student-act-to-reform-national-education-associations-federal-charter/ , which refused every attempt on 2026-09-20. His own release on the same bill opened and is used instead.
• His candidate page at https://pbswisconsin.org/candidate/scott-fitzgerald/ , which refused every attempt on 2026-09-20.
• The two Facebook addresses our research gave for October 2023 statements. Both refused to open, and both belong to other people's pages, as set out above.
• His accounts on Facebook and X, at https://www.facebook.com/fitzgeraldforwi and https://twitter.com/fitzgeraldforwi , and his official Facebook page. None was read here and no video was watched for this card.

Not on the card, and why

• Everything he has said about Iran: the June 2025 statements on Israel's strike and on the American strikes, the cosponsored resolution of June 2025, and the Iran clause inside his March 2024 statement on the State of the Union. A different question from what the United States sends to the government of Israel. All of it is above with dates.
• The two October 2023 Facebook statements our research attributed to him. They are on other people's pages, one of them a Tennessee member's, and they are not his.
• The words of Senator Cynthia Lummis about the Anti-Defamation League, and the words of Rep. Claudia Tenney and Rep. Brad Sherman about the Iran resolution. Other people's words, recorded above with their speakers named.
• The STUDENT Act itself, as an answer to this question. It is a bill about a teachers' union's federal charter; the antisemitism argument for it was made by the Senate sponsor, not by him.
• The financial services, judiciary, immigration, agriculture, veterans and election material that fills the rest of his newsroom and all of his campaign site. Out of scope.
• The recorded votes and the two tracked bills. They are shown in this card's record section. He has published no statement about any of them, so the card describes none of them in his words and narrates no roll call.
• Andrew Beck's record. Another candidate's record belongs on that candidate's own card.

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

• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases and the 320 items across its 32 listing pages (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/in-the-news and the 34 items across its 4 listing pages (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-applauds-speaker-johnson-remarks-netanyahu-joint-address-congress (opened; 2026-09-20; dated March 21, 2024 on the page)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-speaks-prime-minister-netanyahu-following-letter-requesting-joint (opened; 2026-09-20; dated April 5, 2024)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-responds-announced-pm-netanyahu-visit-capitol-hill (opened; 2026-09-20; dated May 25, 2024)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-statement-israels-strike-against-iran (opened; 2026-09-20; dated June 13, 2025)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-statement-us-strikes-against-iran (opened; 2026-09-20; dated June 21, 2025)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-and-senator-lummis-introduce-legislation-reform-national (opened; 2026-09-20; dated July 24, 2025)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-statement-passage-fy26-national-defense-authorization-act and https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-fitzgerald-votes-pass-fy26-national-defense-authorization-act (opened; 2026-09-20; dated September 10 and December 10, 2025)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-responds-reports-two-afghan-refugees-charged-child-sex-spousal and https://fitzgerald.house.gov/media/press-releases/fitzgerald-tours-fort-mccoy-receives-briefing-afghan-refugees (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses and https://fitzgerald.house.gov/issues (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://fitzgerald.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/fitzgerald.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/israel%20letter.pdf (opened as a file; the scan carries no readable text; 2026-09-20)
• https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/fitzgerald-statement-on-president-bidens-state-of-the-union-address-2/ (opened; 2026-09-20; the page prints March 7, 2024)
• https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tenney-leads-resolution-supporting-israels-strikes-end-irans (opened; 2026-09-20; dated June 17, 2025)
• https://scottfitzgeraldforcongress.com/ (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin%27s_5th_Congressional_District_election,_2026 (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://www.wuwm.com/wisconsins-5th-congressional-district-election-candidates (opened; 2026-09-20; published July 13, 2026, updated August 12, 2026)
• https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-fitzgerald-introduce-student-act-to-reform-national-education-associations-federal-charter/ , https://pbswisconsin.org/candidate/scott-fitzgerald/ , https://elections.wi.gov/candidates/federal-candidates , https://www.facebook.com/VoteBalkcom/posts/yesterday-i-was-proud-to-co-sponsor-and-vote-for-unanimous-passage-of-house-reso/334989172442315/ and https://www.facebook.com/JohnRoseforTN/posts/we-must-show-israel-our-unequivocal-support-and-condemn-any-form-of-antisemitism/890473555783116/ (could not open; 2026-09-20)
• This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-20, not a claim that no other statement exists.