Trump says US will end $4 billion Israel aid after 2026

President Donald Trump announced the planned cutoff during a television interview on November 3. Speaking on Fox News' Fox and Friends, he said US funding for Israel would stop after the end of this year, according to The Hill.

The arrangement currently provides Israel with around $4 billion annually, Trump said, according to News18. The announcement concerns military aid, CNN Brasil reported.

In the November 3 interview, Trump presented the decision as an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rather than simply a demand from Washington. CNN Brasil reported his account of that agreement.

Trump set the end of 2026 as the cutoff point. The Independent also reported that he said he had struck a new deal with Netanyahu to stop the funding at the end of the year.

His explanation combined a claim about Israel's needs with a domestic political argument. According to NDTV, Trump said Israel no longer needed the money and that some Democrats and left-wing politicians were using the funding to criticise Republicans.

The reported position is a presidential announcement of a future cutoff, not an immediate halt. News18 reported that Trump said the existing annual arrangement would end after this year.

The supplied coverage does not include the text of an agreement, a separate statement from Netanyahu confirming it, or details of how the funding would be stopped. It therefore establishes what Trump said, but not the practical terms of the change.

The main questions are how the announced cutoff would be implemented and exactly which military funding it would cover. Publication of the agreement Trump described, or confirmation from Netanyahu, would help establish its scope.