President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States will end its $3.8 billion in annual aid to Israel by the end of 2026. “Because they don’t need it,” the president said, noting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had come to him with the idea.
We’ll see if the administration follows through on its promise. Netanyahu, though, has been arguing that Israel should wean itself off U.S. aid for at least 30 years. Shortly after first becoming prime minister in 1996, he promised a joint session of Congress that he’d work to eliminate nonmilitary aid to attain economic independence. Since then, he’s championed military independence for the Jewish state as well.
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