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Slotkin Skips Key Israel Arms Votes to Tape Colbert Appearance

During her late-night TV appearance, the Senate once again declined to halt arms shipments to Israel despite persistent demands to leverage aid over Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

Senator Elissa Slotkin during a confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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Overview

  • The Senate rejected Bernie Sanders’s resolutions to block additional weapons sales to Israel by votes of 70-27 and 73-24 on July 30–31
  • Sen. Elissa Slotkin was absent from both roll-call votes while in New York to film an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
  • In a Breaking Points interview, Slotkin condemned starvation in Gaza without naming Israel and shifted blame to pro-Palestine protests under President Biden
  • She joined 40 senators in signing a letter criticizing a policy of starvation but declined to describe Israeli actions as genocide or ethnic cleansing
  • Slotkin has consistently opposed cutting U.S. defensive weapons transfers to Israel, including earlier votes against blocking tank rounds, mortar rounds and JDAMs