Block the arms sale to Israel (Sanders, April 2025)
Senate Joint Resolution, S.J.Res. 26
What it did
Under the Arms Export Control Act, a senator can force the Senate to vote on blocking a specific weapons sale to another government. These resolutions were sitting in the Foreign Relations Committee, so Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) moved to put them on the Senate floor. A yes vote would have let the full Senate decide the sale.
A no vote kept the question off the floor.
S.J.Res. 26 targeted a proposed sale of US bombs and related munitions to Israel, voted the same day as S.J.Res. 33 on the 2,000-pound bombs. The Senate kept the question off the floor 15-83 on April 3, 2025.
At the time of this vote, more than 48,000 innocent people had been murdered in Gaza, more than 17,000 of them children, by the military that was to receive these weapons.
Result: Rejected 15-83
At the time of this vote: ~48,000+ innocent people murdered (~17,000+ young children murdered)
The humane vote: Yes (YEA)