Bundled Aid Packages

Major military aid to Israel often arrives in bundled appropriations and emergency supplemental packages that mix it with unrelated priorities, making individual accountability harder. This insight explains how VoteLog classifies these bundled bills and what they reveal about each member of Congress's real record on Israel and Palestine funding.

Published May 15, 2026 · Updated July 24, 2026

The bundled bills

147 bills are classified as bundled packages — Israel/Palestine provisions folded into must-pass or omnibus legislation.

  1. S 4784 (119th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, introduced 2026-06-15
  2. HR 8800 (119th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, introduced 2026-05-13
  3. HR 8595 (119th Congress): Making appropriations for national security, Department of State, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and for other purposes., introduced 2026-04-30
  4. HR 7148 (119th Congress): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, introduced 2026-01-20
  5. HR 7006 (119th Congress): Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026, introduced 2026-01-12
  6. S 2882 (119th Congress): Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026, introduced 2025-09-18
  7. HR 5450 (119th Congress): Continuing Appropriations and Extensions and Other Matters Act, 2026, introduced 2025-09-18
  8. HR 5300 (119th Congress): Department of State Policy Provisions Act, introduced 2025-09-11
  9. S 2572 (119th Congress): Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026, introduced 2025-07-31
  10. HR 4779 (119th Congress): National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026, introduced 2025-07-25
  11. S 2296 (119th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, introduced 2025-07-15
  12. HR 4016 (119th Congress): Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026, introduced 2025-06-16
  13. HR 3838 (119th Congress): Streamlining Procurement for Effective Execution and Delivery and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, introduced 2025-06-09
  14. S 1071 (119th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, introduced 2025-03-14
  15. S 4638 (118th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, introduced 2024-07-08
  16. HRES 1102 (118th Congress): Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 2882, with an amendment., introduced 2024-03-22
  17. HR 5009 (118th Congress): Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, introduced 2023-07-27
  18. HR 4665 (118th Congress): Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024, introduced 2023-07-17
  19. S 2226 (118th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, introduced 2023-07-11
  20. HR 2882 (118th Congress): Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, introduced 2023-04-26
  21. HR 2670 (118th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, introduced 2023-04-18
  22. HR 815 (118th Congress): Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes., introduced 2023-02-02
  23. HR 7776 (117th Congress): James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, introduced 2022-05-16
  24. S 2792 (117th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, introduced 2021-09-22
  25. S 1605 (117th Congress): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, introduced 2021-05-13

Some of the largest dollar amounts ever sent to Israel didn’t move through a standalone Israel bill. They moved through supplementals that bundled Israel aid with Ukraine and Taiwan, through annual defense authorizations, or through omnibus spending packages keeping the federal government open. A Yea or Nay vote on those bills reflects positions on dozens of issues at once — so we count them separately and exclude them from member scorecards. The votes themselves remain public record and are surfaced here for full context.

Bundling is one of the most effective procedural tools in Congress for moving controversial money quietly. A standalone bill that sends billions in military aid to Israel forces every member into a clean, on-the-record yes-or-no. The same money inside a supplemental that also funds Ukraine, Taiwan, and hurricane relief turns the same vote into “do I support emergency aid generally,” and the political cost collapses.

The result is that some of the largest single-shot transfers of Israel aid in modern history — including the $14 billion supplemental in HR 815 — left an ambiguous voting trail. A member can credibly say they voted yes for Ukraine and against Israel funding, or vice versa, without ever having to choose.

Each card is a single bundled bill. The headline number is the final floor tally. The three party bars below it (D / R / I) show how each caucus split Yea/Nay on the same vote — useful for spotting party-line breaks. Click through any card to see the full member-by-member roll-call.

Counting a Yea on the FY24 emergency supplemental as a single pro-Israel point would treat it as equivalent to authoring a pro-Israel bill, which it plainly isn’t. Counting it as anything else would understate the dollar amount it actually moved. Rather than pick a wrong answer, member scorecards exclude bundled votes entirely — and we surface them here so the record stays complete.