Brandon Herrera
R · U.S. House, TX-23 · not rated
No position on Israel’s war, aid or Palestinians beyond his blanket opposition to foreign aid: in 2024 he said he would “absolutely vote AGAINST” the $95 billion-plus foreign-aid package and, asked whether he would pledge to end foreign aid including to Israel, replied that “We can't claim to be 'America First' while pushing spending bills like the most recent foreign aid package that gave almost $100 billion to every country except the US”; asked at a Texas A&M question-and-answer session posted in November 2025 about aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, he again answered for all foreign aid — “I don’t think we should be spending a single dime of American taxpayer money outside of the United States” — while allowing for spending abroad that serves U.S. defense; his platform says he “will not support sending billions to defend foreign borders while our own remain open.” After Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attacks, his campaign site posted his statement calling “Hamas’ horrific terrorist attacks on Israel” “a deadly consequence of the Biden Administration’s reckless foreign policy,” saying the administration “has armed terrorists in Gaza” and pledging to “ban foreign aid to terrorists like Hamas.” After AIPAC's super PAC spent over $1 million against him in 2024, he wrote “I’m not anti Israel, I’m anti Israel buying American elections” (X, May 2024) and that he despises “their Israel first bullshit” but “It’s far from a top issue for me” (X, July 2024). A gun YouTuber, he is the Trump-endorsed TX-23 Republican nominee.
Not rated: his opposition to aid for Israel comes as part of a blanket America First stance against all foreign aid — asked about Israel specifically in 2024 and again in 2025, he restated the blanket position — and his remaining Israel content is anti-lobby rhetoric against AIPAC and an October 2023 statement blaming the Biden administration for Hamas’s attacks, with nothing on weapons for Israel, Gaza’s civilians or Palestinians, so it does not place him on the scale. AIPAC's United Democracy Project opposed him in 2024 over that stance and over YouTube videos with Nazi imagery and Holocaust jokes; the Republican Jewish Coalition opposed him over those videos. Counter-case: if his answer to the direct question about ending aid to Israel is read as an Israel-specific pledge, it would point toward the critical end despite its America First basis.
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