In an interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump said Israel’s annual U.S. aid package would end by year-end, but commercial purchases of American weapons would remain possible.
He said the agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reached months earlier. Trump described the annual support as about $4 billion.
Trump said the change would include cash and transfers of military equipment. He said Israel could continue buying U.S. weapons through commercial deals and that Washington could assist if the country needed help.
Trump cast the proposal as a response to domestic political pressure. Asked about changing attitudes among younger Americans and progressive calls to freeze military shipments, Trump said critics had made the annual payment a political target.
Trump said Netanyahu had suggested ending the payments after talks spanning several years, as the subsidy had become a domestic political issue. Anadolu reported that Israeli government officials had not responded to Trump’s remarks or confirmed a formal agreement.
An earlier EconoTimes report on the aid memorandum said its annual total was $3.8 billion, compared with Trump’s $4 billion estimate. The report also said a cutoff after 2026 would come before the memorandum’s final fiscal year.
