Trump Says $3.8 Billion Aid Program for Israel Will End This Year

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Israel will still be able to purchase U.S. arms, Trump said, and may receive additional aid if necessary.
60% : In May, he told CBS News that he wants the U.S. and Israel to act more as partners than as patron and client.
57% : "We give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we're stopping -- and they're fine with it, because, you know, they've become a very successful country.
50% : In addition, outside the agreement, the U.S. provided Israel with at least $21.7 billion in military aid in the two years following the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, according to an analysis by the Costs of War project at Brown University.
48% : "He says, 'Why are we giving Israel $4 billion?'
46% : "I want to taper off American support for Israel to zero," he said.
45% : The U.S. and Israel are currently operating under a military assistance agreement signed in 2016 during the Obama administration under which the U.S. provides $3.8 billion a year in aid to Israel through 2028.
42% : "That is because America has changed, not because Israel has changed.
39% : Appearing on "Fox & Friends" as polls opened on Election Day, Trump said he had discussed ending the aid with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu months ago, and the leaders agreed to make the change since Israel no longer needs the assistance.
39% : El-Sayed reportedly declined to answer questions about whether he thought the end of military aid to Israel was a permanent policy shift or a political tactic timed for Election Day.
29% : President Trump said Tuesday that the United States will stop giving Israel roughly $4 billion in annual aid, starting at the beginning of next year.
28% : " Although criticism of military aid to Israel has come from both the left and the right, Trump singled out one Democratic critic in particular: Abdul El-Sayed, the Senate nominee in Michigan.
19% : The politics of aid to Israel: Trump indicated that the agreement to end the aid was informed by rising criticism of the arrangement in American politics, especially from "lunatics" on the left.

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