Full List of Democrats Voting Against Cut to Israel Aid as Base Turns On US Ally
Massie proposed an amendment to cut $3.3 billion in annual military assistance to Israel, but the House rejected it.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYNewsweek is an established national news organization with an identifiable author and a reported article that attributes polling and lawmakers’ statements. The story gives specific vote totals and polling details, though its institutional credibility is not at the highest wire-service or newspaper-of-record level.
- Source type — Established national news outlet with a substantial reporting operation.
- Transparency — It attributes polling findings and quotations to named sources and organizations.
- Author attribution — The article identifies its author.
- Editorial standards — The article presents factual reporting and competing views, but the text does not establish its corrections practices.
The article supplies vote totals, describes the amendment’s proposed effect, cites several polls with sample and field-date information, and includes statements from supporters and opponents. Its account is useful and specific, although the polling occupies substantial space and there is limited detail about lawmakers’ individual reasoning beyond selected quotations.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The story includes statements from both supporters and opponents of the amendment and polling that provides broader context. The quoted perspectives are not equally extensive, and the article does not deeply examine the opposing arguments or the amendment’s likely effects.
- Counterarguments presented — Includes arguments for reducing aid and objections to the amendment, including Jeffries’s alternative approach.
- Source diversity — Uses several polls and comments from lawmakers with differing positions.
- Omitted context — Offers limited examination of the amendment’s possible consequences and the rationales of individual lawmakers.
- Loaded language — Language is generally attributed or descriptive rather than overtly loaded.
The article reports the vote and its political divisions in largely neutral language. It includes polling that indicates declining Democratic support for aid as well as arguments from lawmakers on both sides, without clearly endorsing either position.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive language, with claims and quotations attributed to their sources.
- Source selection — Includes lawmakers supporting and opposing the amendment and references multiple polls.
- Framing — Frames the vote as evidence of party division rather than as a moral verdict on either side.
The House rejected Representative Thomas Massie’s amendment to cut $3.3 billion in annual military assistance to Israel, by 104 votes to 313. The vote exposed divisions among Democrats over U.S. support for Israel.
Massie’s amendment would have barred fiscal 2027 State Department appropriations from funding Israel and reduced its Foreign Military Financing account by $3.3 billion. The amendment failed, with 104 votes in favor and 313 against; among Democrats, 103 voted for it and 98 voted against it, while 10 voted present. The article identifies the Democrats who opposed the amendment and describes the vote as evidence of divisions within the party over aid to Israel.
Massie said in a post after the vote that the 104 votes in favor showed that “the tide is changing.” The article also presents polling on views of U.S. aid to Israel and quotes lawmakers on both sides of the amendment, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who said there were “more decisive ways” to seek change regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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15 OUTLETSOutlets agree that the House rejected Thomas Massie’s amendment to cut $3.3 billion in U.S. aid to Israel. The vote drew support from more than 100 House members and highlighted divisions among Democrats. Left-leaning outlets foreground the more than 100 Democrats who joined Massie and frame the vote as support for cutting aid. Center outlets largely treat the failed amendment as a measure of Democratic divisions over U.S. support for Israel, while some also stress Massie’s domestic-spending argument. Right-leaning outlets cast those divisions as a conflict within the Democratic Party and emphasize opposition from party leaders.
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- The Daily Caller · Massie Says 'Opinions Are Shifting' In The US On Israel, Despite Democrat Leadership Unease With Amendment Stripping Aid
- Yahoo News · Thomas Massie Sparks a Democratic Civil War Over Israel
- Fortune · Washington still voted to send Israel $3.3 billion in aid — but over half of the House Democrats revolted
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