Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. has voted repeatedly to send billions of dollars and weapons to Israel’s military as they wage a genocide against the Palestinian people, but he has also wasted 36 years in Congress watching the quality of life in America decline.
He has failed to stop President Donald Trump, fix the economy, or achieve meaningful progress to save the world from unprecedented existential dangers.
Hsu relies entirely on small, grassroots donations and accepts no corporate PAC money. In contrast, Pallone takes donations from corporate PACs.
On foreign policy, Hsu has organized for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, criticized U.S. military aid, and condemned Pallone’s support for the Israeli genocide.
On immigration, Hsu advocates for abolishing ICE, and he criticizes Pallone for funding to support the Gestapo-like immigration enforcement agency.
On economic and social policy, Hsu runs under the slogan “Healthcare, Not Bombs or ICE.” The Democratic challenger backs universal healthcare, Medicare for All, and higher taxes on the super wealthy, whose tax burden has declined during Pallone’s tenure.
From the post-World War II era through the 1970s, the U.S. economy expanded at a robust and steady clip. Real incomes rose consistently, enabling tens of millions of families to enter what became the world’s first mass middle class.
The gains from this prosperity were broadly shared, lifting living standards and fostering a new sense of comfort and security—though many racial and ethnic minorities continued to struggle on the margins. Since Frank Pallone took office in Congress, however, the bottom 90% of working Americans have faced an estimated $88 trillion in lost wages, while income inequality has soared to unprecedented levels.
The federal debt has multiplied nearly fifteenfold since Pallone arrived in Washington. Due to economic stimulus, recessions, armed conflicts, and reckless tax cuts for the rich that created large structural deficits, the U.S. national debt grew from $2.6 trillion in 1988 to over $40 trillion by the November election.
As a senior member and former Chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, Pallone played an active role in authoring and passing a massive corporate welfare package built on subsidies for private health insurance companies in 2010, rather than demanding universal coverage through Medicare for All.
Pallone claims he was inspired to run for Congress to foster a healthy environment, but between 1988 and 2026, environmental degradation accelerated dramatically, fundamentally altering the Earth’s ecosystems.
Driven by a massive influx of industrial greenhouse gases—with more than half of all industrial emissions having occurred since 1988—and soaring plastic production, the planet now faces widespread warming, severe weather events, and severe biodiversity losses.
Ahead of the 2026 midterms, growing numbers of Democratic voters, activists, candidates, and elected officials want to change US policy toward Israel, not only because of accusations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is engaged in a genocidal slaughter of women and children in Gaza.
In the special Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 11th congressional district, former centrist Democratic Congressman Tom Malinowski became an AIPAC target after saying that he would consider placing conditions on some military aid.
AIPAC’s demand for slavish obedience is as offensive to Americans who believe in representative government as the cult-like loyalty demanded by the NRA gun lobby or Republican President Donald Trump.
The Israeli government, led by Netanyahu, has been formally accused of genocide in legal proceedings, and several major international bodies have published findings supporting claims of genocidal acts and intent.
B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, two major Israeli human rights organizations, unequivocally recognized that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Earlier this year, when Trump asked for more than $3B in additional funding for Israel, Pallone voted yes.
Pallone voted on April 20, 2024, for the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which provided $26 billion to Israel.
Pallone voted against an amendment introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to cut $500 million in funding for Israeli defense programs on July 18, 2025, during consideration of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act.
He supported the bill that codified President Donald Trump’s sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court and anyone who has assisted in attempting to hold Israeli officials accountable for apparent war crimes committed in Gaza.
Pallone even refused to endorse letters in support of Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi that criticized the Trump administration’s crackdown on free speech and the unconstitutional detention of noncitizen students who oppose genocide, as well as the letter that condemned Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war and leading Palestinians into massacres at the hands of Israeli soldiers.
Everything has gotten worse since Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. went to Congress
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