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Trump said the U.S. will halt $4 billion in annual Israel aid by year-end 2026. He cited a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu asserting Israel no longer needs the aid.
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Trump cuts Israel aid
President Donald Trump said he will stop giving Israel $4 billion annually in military and economic aid by the end of 2026, after he said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump told Fox News that the aid “will be interrupted at the end of the year,” and he framed the $4 billion as “military aid or cash.”
Trump said he and Netanyahu “made a deal months ago” and that Israel “does not need it,” while he added, “We won’t be paying any more.” The AP reported that Trump said the United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027, while also saying the United States will “sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East.”
Netanyahu, critics, and debate
Trump said Netanyahu raised the idea of stopping U.S. aid and that Netanyahu “understands that this is one of the points that causes controversy,” while Trump defended the decision as Israel becoming “a very prosperous country.”
Trump also said he could not allow the issue to be used by candidates, and he cited Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed as a critic of U.S. support for Israel.
Yair Golan, a leader in Israel’s opposition bloc, said an end to U.S. military aid would deal a “severe blow to Israel’s security,” and he added that the burden would “fall entirely upon the Israeli public.”
Trump said, “You can consider it barter. You can consider military aid or cash,” and he argued that the $4 billion payment is used as a “signal of unfairness” by “the left.”
What is at stake next
The Reuters account in Al-Monitor said the memorandum of understanding provides $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel each year and does not expire until 2028, even as Trump said Washington would stop $4 billion after the end of this year.
“We did not expect this announcement, and certainly not today. There is ongoing dialogue with the Americans, and it can be said that we were surprised.”
Al-Arabi Al-Jadid said Israeli security officials and the army were studying the effects because the decision had not reached official channels, and it quoted an Israeli security establishment figure saying, “We did not expect this announcement, and certainly not today.”
Al Jazeera reported that the U.S. Department of State did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and it said there was no confirmation of the move by Israel’s foreign minister or Netanyahu’s office.
AP said the aid debate is complicated by obligations under the Camp David peace accords with Egypt and by the fact that much assistance comes as foreign military financing that requires spending on American-produced weaponry, meaning U.S. defense contractors could be affected unless Israel buys the same amount of American materiel.
