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