Key Republican calls for emergency funding to Israel amid worsening Iran conflict

A cardinal House Republican says Congress should see sending exigency U.S. assistance to Israel amid its worsening struggle with Iran.

"Yeah, absolutely," Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., said erstwhile asked astir a supplemental backing bundle successful the lawsuit the situation became a prolonged conflict. 

"There’s very, very, precise beardown bipartisan support, successful peculiar Republican support, for Israel, and I deliberation again, what we are seeing is Israel doing what they request to bash to support themselves from virtually being wiped disconnected the look of the planet."

He besides commended President Donald Trump arsenic having handled the volatile concern "brilliantly truthful far."

People basal adjacent a residential gathering that was deed pursuing rocket onslaught from Iran connected Israel, June 15, 2025.  (REUTERS/Tomer Appelbaum)

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The Florida Republican chairs the House Appropriations Committee sheet liable for overseeing overseas assistance and State Department funding.

The National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs subcommittee was cardinal to Congress crafting emergency overseas assistance packages to Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine past twelvemonth — each of which passed Congress with varying degrees of bipartisan support.

Diaz-Balart said helium had not spoken with House leaders astir the issue, noting astir lawmakers were distant successful their location districts tending to their constituencies this week.

He added, "I’ve really had informal conversations with members."

He declined to accidental however those members felt astir supplemental Israel funding, however, telling Fox News Digital, "I can't talk for others, but I volition archer you that determination is simply a precise beardown appetite from maine to marque definite that Israel has each the assistance that it needs successful bid to decorativeness the occupation that it’s doing."

Meanwhile, helium and his chap subcommittee members person besides been crafting their appropriations measure for the adjacent fiscal twelvemonth coming connected Oct. 1.

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., is the apical Republican connected the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee connected State Department funding. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Sipa USA)

"We’re going to bash what we've been consistently doing, is just, we're going to beryllium helping Israel. And if determination is simply a request to bash more, evidently you're going to spot beardown support, whether it's successful the appropriation… bills, oregon if we request a supplemental, I deliberation you would spot beardown bipartisan support," helium said.

Last year, the House authorized conscionable implicit $26 cardinal successful exigency U.S. backing for Israel, humanitarian assistance successful the region, and enactment up American subject operations. The measure passed successful an overwhelmingly bipartisan 366 to 58 ballot — an progressively uncommon occurrence for large authorities successful the existent governmental climate.

Twenty-one House Republicans and 37 Democrats voted against the measurement astatine the time.

But since then, Democrats person continued to turn progressively captious of Israel’s warfare successful Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s blimpish government.

At the aforesaid time, there’s been a increasing skepticism of overseas assistance among the House GOP — peculiarly with the nationalist indebtedness climbing toward $37 trillion.

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He said President Donald Trump has handled the concern 'brilliantly.' (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Diaz-Balart, however, was inactive optimistic that a hypothetical assistance bundle could walk if brought up successful Congress, erstwhile asked astir some of those factors.

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Israeli officials said Iran was dangerously adjacent to having a atomic limb erstwhile its subject launched an onslaught connected Tehran that killed the Islamic regime’s apical subject figures and deed atomic sites successful and astir the capital.

Since then, some sides person exchanged rocket fire, with fatalities reported connected some sides.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., for remark connected the anticipation of supplemental backing to Israel.