Morgan McGarvey
D · U.S. House, KY-3 · Tier 3/4
Tier 3/4, between “Pro-Israel, critical” and “Critical / conditions aid”
Cosponsored Block the Bombs on Jul 2 2026 (75th of 82, more than a year after it was introduced) and two weeks later voted Aye on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s $3.3 billion in military financing; in August 2025 he told a Louisville town hall, “We no longer take AIPAC money” (Courier Journal, Aug 30, 2025). He voted for the April 2024 aid package while saying “The Republican majority should have included conditions on the military aid to Netanyahu,” and voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act, the bill to force the paused bomb shipment and both ICC-sanctions bills, but for the “river to the sea” resolution (Present on H.Res.894). His November 2023 statement called the images from Gaza “horrifying” and said “Thousands of Palestinians have been killed” alongside “Israel has a right to defend itself and its people”; by December 2023 he was calling for “a bilateral ceasefire,” and in January 2025 he spoke of “the Palestinian people who have endured unimaginable tragedy.” Later in 2025 he signed the March letter demanding answers on the detention of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and, with most House Democrats, the September Schneider–Raskin letter to Netanyahu and his ministers opposing annexation of the West Bank. In June 2026 McGarvey 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 3/4. His main step toward limiting weapons is Block the Bombs, which he cosponsored on July 2, 2026, 75th of 82 and thirteen months after it was introduced; two weeks later he voted Aye on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s $3.3 billion in military financing, but he has explained neither. In June 2026 he also signed the Balint–Castro letter asking the administration to stop arms transfers used in Israel’s operations in southern Lebanon until the violations cease. In May 2024 he also signed the Crow–Deluzio letter of 88 House members urging President Biden to weigh “withholding specific arms transfers” while Israel restricted aid into Gaza. In April 2024 he voted for the aid package while saying it “should have included conditions on the military aid to Netanyahu.” He also voted for the “river to the sea” resolution and the Hamas-financing bill (H.R.340), and has not used the word genocide; his fullest Gaza statement (November 2023) paired concern for civilians with Israel’s right to defend itself. In 2024, $49,658 reached him through AIPAC’s PAC and $21,391 through NORPAC (direct and earmarked); in August 2025 he told a Louisville town hall, “We no longer take AIPAC money,” and FEC shows none in 2026. His Nays on the IHRA bill, the bill forcing the paused bomb shipment and both ICC-sanctions bills point the same way. Counter-case: 3, since neither the Massie Aye nor Block the Bombs is explained and the letter also affirms Israel’s right to defend itself.
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