Teresa Leger Fernández
D · U.S. House, NM-3 · Tier 3/4
Tier 3/4, between “Pro-Israel, critical” and “Critical / conditions aid”
Block the Bombs cosponsor (Sept 2025, alongside her NM neighbor Stansbury) who conditions some offensive arms. But she signed the NM delegation letter backing Iron Dome / David’s Sling resupply, voted the April 2024 package (which she framed around its $9B in Gaza humanitarian aid), and uses two-state framing with no genocide language. She signed letters urging sanctions on Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over incitement of settler violence (October 2024), demanding answers on the detention of student activist Mahmoud Khalil (March 2025) and urging Secretary Rubio to demand a surge of infant formula into Gaza (August 2025), and joined most House Democrats on the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter opposing West Bank annexation. She is also endorsed by J Street. Her committee took $13,705 from AIPAC’s PAC: $7,905 in the 2022 cycle and $5,800 in earmarks dated January 2023. In a Santa Fe New Mexican candidate questionnaire published Oct 12, 2026 she wrote that “The United States cannot keep writing blank checks for offensive military assistance to Netanyahu’s government while Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank suffer,” that “Peace cannot be built with more bombs,” and “I support a two-state solution.” In June 2026 Leger Fernández 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, alongside her NM delegation neighbours Melanie Stansbury and Gabe Vasquez, whose record keeps more of the pro-Israel frame. She cosponsors Block the Bombs (Sept 2025, the same day as Stansbury), the offensive-arms-conditioning act, a step that takes her past a flat Tier 3. What keeps a foot in 3 rather than a clean 4 is her affirmative pro-defensive-aid conduct, identical to Vasquez and Stansbury: she signed the NM delegation letter backing Iron Dome / David’s Sling resupply, voted the April 2024 package (framing it around its $9B in Gaza humanitarian aid), and uses two-state framing with no genocide language and no position questioning Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state, but she cosponsored H.R.3565 in September 2025 and, voting for the July 2026 Massie amendment, said in her own voice that “the United States cannot continue writing blank checks for offensive military assistance to Netanyahu’s government as he causes such death and destruction for innocent Palestinian civilians,” while keeping her support for defensive systems. Her AIPAC PAC money is $7,905 in the 2022 cycle plus $5,800 in earmarks dated Jan 17, 2023, with nothing in the 2026 cycle and no public break located, so the money reads as a lapsed relationship rather than a live one.
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