Andrea Salinas
D · U.S. House, OR-6 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
AIPAC 2024 endorsee who then cosponsored the Block the Bombs Act (Dec 2025), i.e., began conditioning some offensive arms to Israel. She voted for the April 2024 Israel aid supplemental; her Block-the-Bombs signature, coming after the October 2025 ceasefire, carries less weight than the early cosponsorships. She has taken $89,913 in AIPAC and DMFI money (2024 cycle) — plus $142,374 from J Street PAC across 2024 and 2026 — and has never broken with the lobby. She signed the January 2024 Pressley–Raskin letter urging the State Department to affirm U.S. opposition to the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, the October 2024 letter urging sanctions on Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, the March 2025 letter demanding answers on the detention of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, the August 2025 Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel’s government for a surge of aid, infant formula above all, into Gaza and, with most House Democrats, the September 2025 letter opposing West Bank annexation. On Sep 24, 2026 Salinas signed a 72-member letter urging Netanyahu to contain settler violence in the West Bank and “halt further settlement approvals.” On Oct 1, 2026 Salinas became an original cosponsor of the Stop the Settlements Act (H.R.10642), which would sanction those who build or expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and ban imports of settlement goods. On the third anniversary of October 7 she said “As we honor and remember the Israeli lives lost that day, I’m also mourning the innocent Palestinians killed in Israel’s ensuing war,” and called for “a lasting ceasefire, the disarmament of Hamas, and the freedom to live with safety and dignity” (Oct 7, 2026). In June 2026 Salinas signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, led by Reps. Becca Balint and Joaquin Castro, on Israel’s operations in southern Lebanon, saying Israel’s “targeted, mass destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure does not constitute Israeli self-defense” and asking that, if U.S.-origin arms were confirmed in those operations, the administration “stop arms transfers being used in these operations until these violations cease”; the letter also affirmed that “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
A 2/3. Beyond signing the May 2024 Crow letter that urged President Biden to enforce Section 620I, which bars U.S. arms to governments that restrict U.S. humanitarian aid, she has taken three steps toward limiting weapons: she cosponsored Block the Bombs on December 16, 2025, a late signer after the September 2025 famine reports; she voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing, explaining that “Israel has not demonstrated that they would use this military equipment responsibly”; and she cosponsored the Ceasefire Compliance Act on August 3, 2026. Against them stand AIPAC’s 2024 endorsement and $89,913 from AIPAC’s and DMFI’s PACs in the 2024 cycle, with no public break, and that money is what holds her at 2/3. She also voted for the April 2024 aid package and the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and her Massie statement affirms that “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Counter-case: 3/4, since no AIPAC or DMFI money has reached her campaign in the 2026 cycle.
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elect26 places 2026 midterm candidates on a six-tier spectrum, from 1 (most pro-Israel) to 6 (most critical of Israel).