Doris Matsui
D · U.S. House, CA-7 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
Sacramento's member of Congress since 2005. In July 2026 she voted for the Massie amendment to cut $3.3 billion in foreign military financing for Israel, saying she “cannot support funding for military aid to any country that fails to comply with U.S. law, U.S. interests, and U.S. values” while pledging to “continue to support funding for critical defensive programs”; in February 2026 she was an original cosponsor of Casten's Ceasefire Compliance Act (H.R.7645), which would bar the use of U.S.-origin weapons in Gaza and the West Bank unless conditions are met. At an April 2026 forum she said “I have called Netanyahu a war criminal” and “I will not send any offensive dollars,” but her 2023–24 votes backed the April 2024 aid package, H.Res.894 and the Antisemitism Awareness Act. 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 August 2025 Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel to allow a surge of aid into Gaza, above all infant formula, and, with most House Democrats, the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter to Netanyahu and his ministers opposing annexation of the West Bank. Asked about Israel at a late-August 2026 forum with Vang, Matsui said “We start pointing fingers and people go into their corners and we can never bring people together. I don’t want this war either, it’s not our war. It’s their war.” In June 2026 Matsui 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 3. Two acts toward limiting weapons, both from 2026: an original cosponsorship of the Ceasefire Compliance Act (February) and a vote for the Massie amendment stripping Israel’s foreign military financing (July), which she explained in conditioning terms — she “cannot support funding for military aid to any country that fails to comply with U.S. law, U.S. interests, and U.S. values” — while pledging to “continue to support funding for critical defensive programs.” Earlier, in May 2024, she signed the Crow–Deluzio letter urging President Biden to enforce Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act over Israel’s restrictions on aid into Gaza, warning that Israel was “risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance.” She is not a Block the Bombs cosponsor and has not used the word genocide; asked about it during the 2026 race, she said, as Stocktonia reported on October 19, 2026: “This is a place where we have to understand we can say that word over and over again. It doesn’t bring us to a solution here. When you start pointing fingers, people go into a corner.” Her earlier record keeps the frame: Yes on the April 2024 aid package, on H.Res.894 (which declared anti-Zionism to be antisemitism), on the “river to the sea” resolution and on the IHRA-based Antisemitism Awareness Act, No on the 2025 amendment cutting Israel’s missile-defense aid, and a 2019 cosponsorship of the anti-BDS resolution; AIPAC endorsed her in 2024, and its PAC gave $9,900 in 2022 and $11,405 in 2024. Counter-case toward 3/4: she voted against the 2026 anti-boycott bill and told an April 2026 forum, “I will not send any offensive dollars.”
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