Trump Says U.S. Aid to Israel Will End After 2026

President Donald Trump said the United States would stop providing annual aid to Israel after 2026, while continuing to sell weapons and offering assistance if Israel needs it. He said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to end the payments, which Trump described as about $4 billion a year. Israeli officials had not confirmed a formal agreement in reports published November 3. Trump made the remarks in a Fox News interview on Tuesday, November 3. He said the two leaders had discussed ending the aid for several years and that Netanyahu had raised the idea. Trump also said Israel could buy U.S. weapons commercially and that Washington would help if Israel needed support. His comments describe a claimed agreement, but do not establish which assistance programs would change or how the decision would be formalized. The existing 2016 memorandum of understanding provides $3.8 billion in annual assistance through 2028. The package includes $3.3 billion in foreign military financing and $500 million for missile-defense programs. Trump’s estimate of about $4 billion is a rounded figure; he did not specify whether his proposed cutoff covers all components of the...