Bryan Steil
R · U.S. House, WI-1 · Tier 1
Tier 1, “Firmly pro-Israel”
Wrote the End Financing for Hamas and State Sponsors of Terrorism Act (H.R.6322, Nov 2023, with Democrat Brittany Pettersen), which directs the Treasury to work with the G7 “to ensure that Hamas is incapable of financing armed hostilities against Israel”; it was signed into law in full by April 2024, and in September 2024 he pressed the Treasury to speed the report it requires. He told UW–Milwaukee to “maintain its business, investment, and academic relationships with Israel” rather than make concessions to campus protesters (May 2024), and led letters asking the IRS and FinCEN what they were doing about U.S. nonprofits’ potential support for Hamas, singling out the news site The Palestine Chronicle (Jun 2024). He voted for every tracked Israel measure he was present for — the 2023–24 aid bills, H.Res.894, the May 2024 bill forcing delivery of the arms Biden paused, both ICC-sanctions bills and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill — and against the 2025 Greene and 2026 Massie cuts. In January 2024 he signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel.
A clean 1. Steil’s record goes beyond votes: he wrote and saw enacted a House bill aimed at cutting off Hamas’s financing of “armed hostilities against Israel,” then turned the same financial-enforcement tools on U.S. nonprofits, pressing the IRS and FinCEN over a Palestinian news site, and publicly opposed a university’s break with Israel. That is authored Israel legislation plus personal enforcement activism, and the concern he has voiced for Gaza’s children lays the blame on Hamas: at an August 7, 2025 telephone town hall he said “your heart breaks when you see the destruction and the devastation that some of the children face,” but that “the easy answer to solving this is for Hamas to surrender and to release the hostages.” Counter-case: a 1/2 if terror-finance sanctions are treated as counterterrorism rather than Israel legislation, though the law’s stated aim is Israel’s protection.
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