Joe Neguse
D · U.S. House, CO-2 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
Assistant Democratic Leader who voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing, joining Colorado colleagues in a statement that said “We support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself” but “We should not be giving military aid to any country that does not comply with our own laws and values. The Netanyahu government has failed to meet these standards.” In May 2024 he signed the Crow–Deluzio letter of 88 members urging President Biden to enforce Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act, which warned that Israel was “risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance” by restricting aid into Gaza. In August 2025 he called for “a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza” for “those suffering from hunger, malnutrition or starvation,” along with a ceasefire and an end to the war, and he signed the 2025 letters opposing the relocation of Gaza’s population, seeking medical visas for Gaza’s children and, with most House Democrats, opposing West Bank annexation (Sep 2025). His other votes are mainstream: Yea on the April 2024 aid package, H.Res.894 and the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and Nay on both ICC-sanctions bills and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill. He has also cosponsored the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (H.R.1229), which would deepen U.S.-Israel military cooperation and extend the stockpile of U.S. weapons kept in Israel for its use through 2029, since March 2025.
A 2/3. He has taken one step toward limiting weapons — the Massie Aye — and paired it with a conditioning principle in a joint statement: no military aid to a government that does not comply with U.S. law and values, a standard he says Netanyahu’s government “has failed to meet”; the 2024 Section 620I letter shows the same conditioning view two years earlier, and his 2025 Gaza statements add concern for Gaza’s civilians without self-defense language. What keeps him short of a flat 3 is the frame around it: the same statement affirms Israel’s right to defend itself, he voted for the April 2024 aid package, and he has no Block the Bombs, Ceasefire Compliance Act or other conditioning cosponsorship. Counter-case: a flat 3 if the 620I letter is counted as a second conditioning act alongside the Massie vote.
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