Foushee’s Weapons Donors

Rep. Valerie Foushee has long been criticized for her campaign finance practices. During the 2022 Democratic primary against Nida Allam, Foushee significantly outspent her opponent due to almost $4 million in outside expenditures by pro-Israel and and pro-crypto PACs. Since 2023, Israel’s public image has been tarnished by the genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. In August 2025, Foushee announced she would not accept AIPAC support during her reelection campaign.

Foushee has continued to accept donations from a wide range of corporations. In the third quarter of 2025, according to FEC filings, she took contributions from technology, weapons, pharmaceutical and fossil fuel corporations [x].

Since 2024, Foushee has taken $21,000 in donations from weapons manufacturers [x]. The donation totals break down as such:

• 3M: $1,000

• RTX (Raytheon): $1,000

• General Dynamics: $1,000

• Caterpillar Inc: $2,500

• Garmin International: $2,500

• Northrop Grumman: $3,000

• Lockheed Martin: $3,000

• Honeywell: $7,000

With the exception of Garmin, all of Foushee’s weapons donors appear on the American Friends Service Committee list of “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide” [x]. In June 2024, United Nations experts reiterated their call for states and companies to stop arms sales to Israel [x].

Lockheed Martin provides the Israeli military with F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, along with a number of missile systems, including the Hellfire Missile. Northrop Grumman supplies Israel with M197 cannons. Caterpillar sells the D9 Armored Bulldozer, used to demolish homes in Gaza and the West Bank.

Honeywell has supplied Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) for Boeing weapons such as Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits and GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs. GBU-39s have been dubbed the Israeli military's “weapon of choice” in Gaza [x]. In June 2024, a Honeywell IMU was used in an Israeli airstrike that killed 40 people who were sheltering in a UN school [x].

Donations from weapons companies to Foushee could be linked to her House committees. In Feb. 6, 2025, she was appointed to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, serving as the Ranking Member of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee. In this position, Foushee helps to oversee NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) [X]. On Feb. 26, 2025, the Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing to discuss NASA’s Artemis Program, where Foushee gave a statement in support of the Artemis and other similar NASA programs [x]. Lockheed Martin builds the Orion spacecraft, which is the spacecraft used in the Artemis Program [x]. In the past year alone, NASA has awarded weapons manufacturers the following in federal funding:

• Lockheed Martin: $1.25 billion [x]

• Northrop Grumman: $1.23 billion [x]

• Honeywell: $4.11 million [x]

• RTX: $340,000 [x] 

Weapons donors have not contributed money to Foushee’s primary challenger, Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam, who has rejected corporate PAC funding.