The GOP legislator says that the “Israel,” biparisan “congresses as the tensions of Iran are increasing

A key republican says that Israel will continue to have the bipartite support of the Congress while his conflict with Iran aggravates tensions in the Middle East.

“Yeah, absolutely,” said representative Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., Said when he was asked about a hypothetical additional funding set in the event that the crisis became a prolonged conflict.

“There is very, very, very strong bipartisan support, in particular republican support, for Israel, and I think once again, what we see is that Israel does what they have to do to protect themselves from literally from the face of the planet.”

He also congratulated President Donald Trump as having managed the volatile situation “about it so far”.

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People stand near a residential building that was struck following an Iran missile attack on Israel on June 15, 2025. (Reuters / Tomer Appelbaum)

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The Florida Republican chairs the Credit Committee of the Chamber responsible for the supervision of foreign aid and the financing of the State Department.

National security, the State Department and related programs The subcommittee was the key to the congress to manufacture foreign emergency aid packages in Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine last year – all of which adopted the congress with various degrees of bipartite support.

Diaz-Balart said that he had not spoken with the leaders of the Chamber of the issue, noting that most legislators were absent in their original districts taking care of their constituencies this week.

He added: “I actually had informal conversations with the members.”

He refused to say what these members thought of the additional funding of Israel, however, saying to Fox News Digital: “I cannot speak for others, but I will tell you that there is a very strong appetite on my part to make sure that Israel has all the help he needs to finish the work that does.”

Meanwhile, he and his colleagues member of the subcommittee also carried out their bill on credits for the next financial year on October 1.

Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., Is the first republican of the subcommittee of the Credit Committee of the Chamber on the financing of the State Department. (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Sipa USA)

“We are going to do what we do regularly, it’s just, we will help Israel. And if it is necessary to do more, you will obviously see a strong support, whether in appropriation … invoices, or if we need an additional, I think you would see strong bipartisan support,” he said.

Last year, the Chamber authorized just over $ 26 billion in emergency funding in the United States for Israel, humanitarian aid in the region and consolidates US military operations. The bill was adopted in a vote of 366 to 58 bipartisan in a majority – an increasingly rare event for major legislation in the current political climate.

Twenty -one Republicans of the Chamber and 37 Democrats voted against the measure at the time.

But since then, the Democrats have continued to grow more and more from the War of Israel in Gaza and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

At the same time, there was a growing skepticism of foreign aid among the GOP house – in particular with the national climbing of debt Around 37 billions of dollars.

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He said President Donald Trump has managed the situation “brilliantly”. (Katopodis / Getty Images Tasos)

Diaz-Balart, however, was still optimistic about the success of a set of hypothetical aid if it was raised in Congress, interviewed on these two factors.

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Israeli officials said Iran was dangerously close to having a nuclear weapon when its soldiers launched an attack on Tehran who killed the main military figures of the Islamic regime and struck nuclear sites in and around the capital.

Since then, the two parties have exchanged rocket fire, with deaths reported on both sides.

Fox News Digital contacted President Mike Johnson, R-La., And the president of the Chamber’s credit committee, Tom Cole, R-Okla., To comment on the possibility of additional funding for Israel.