Trump Is Reportedly Sending Israel $2.8 Billion in Bombs. You're Paying for Them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The weapons the U.S. is buying for Israel are devastating.
53% : Israel, it seems, won't be running out of firepower anytime soon.
49% : With the war in Iran still hot, the U.S. is preparing a major move to shore up one of its key interests in the region: supplying Israel with bombs.
48% : The U.S. has already expended an enormous amount of material in its war with Iran, and has also drained key strategic resources of missiles and interceptor rockets on Israel's behalf during that country's long campaign in Gaza.
47% : In June, a Quinnipiac poll found that nearly half of U.S. voters think that America is too supportive of Israel as a whole.
46% : But according to the Post, the Trump administration is using a special program called Foreign Military Financing, in which the U.S. would essentially hand Israel the money to buy the weapons from its own coffers.
43% : A New York Times/Siena College poll released late last year also found that a majority of Americans oppose additional economic or military aid to Israel.
42% : The Washington Post reports that the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of bombs to Israel, financed through a government program that would see the U.S. not only release the munitions for sale but pay for them as well, financing Israel's rearmament with American taxpayer dollars.
35% : In 2024, polling found that 52 percent of Americans said that the U.S. government should stop sending weapons to Israel.
29% : The 2,000-pound MK-84s have enormous destructive power, and Israel has already been criticized for utilizing them in crowded civilian areas throughout its campaign in Gaza and Lebanon.
10% : Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) claimed that a MK-84 bomb was used to kill Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in 2024, and it was the only weapon that Joe Biden prohibited from being sold to Israel during the war in Gaza, a decision that Trump reversed immediately after retaking office.

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