President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States will stop about $4 billion a year in funding to Israel after the end of 2026, describing a deal he said he reached months ago with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu^1,2,3.

Speaking by phone to Fox News as U.S. midterm voting was under way, Trump said Israel no longer needs the money and that Washington would still help if asked^1,2,3. "We've already agreed that by the end of this year we won't be paying Israel," he said, according to the BBC¹.

Outlets said it was not immediately clear which accounts he meant^1,2,3. The BBC and France 24, citing Reuters, noted that a U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding providing about $3.8 billion a year in military assistance is scheduled to run through 2028^1,5. ABC News said Trump did not specify which military-aid programs would end or how³.

The Associated Press reported that grant aid would stop in 2027 and that Israel would instead buy U.S. military hardware⁴. Trump said Israel can purchase U.S. weapons⁵. There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu's office^1,5. The BBC said it had asked the White House for clarification¹. Al Jazeera said the State Department did not immediately respond².

Netanyahu said in a May interview with CBS that he wanted to draw U.S. financial support down to zero over about a decade¹.

Trump said Democrats use the annual payment as a campaign talking point against Republicans^1,2,5. The BBC said the House in July defeated, 314-104, an amendment by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to cut security aid, with Massie the only Republican in support¹. Al Jazeera said nearly half of House Democrats backed a July amendment to cut aid². Israel has been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II, the BBC said, citing a congressional total of $174 billion in non-inflation-adjusted dollars¹.

What comes next depends on which legal authorities the administration uses and whether Congress acts; none of the outlets reported a signed public text of a new deal^1,3,4.