‘Midterms panic’: Marjorie says Trump’s Israel aid announcement shows GOP is feeling the pressure
WASHINGTON, DC: Hours after President Donald Trump said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to end $4 billion in annual US aid to Israel, former congresswoman and Trump’s ex-ally Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized the president.
Greene said the move was driven by concerns over the midterm elections and was announced under political pressure.
Former Republican claims Trump decided to end aid to Israel amid poll pressure
President Trump’s election-day announcement to end financial support to Israel met with harsh criticism from former Republican and House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who had previously pushed to cut the funding.
This morning on Election Day, Trump goes on Fox News and announces he’s going to stop $4 billion dollars per year aid to Israel. Last year when my amendment to strip funding to Israel failed in the House bc only 6 members of congress including myself voted for it, I was labeled an antisemite. Amazing how being on the verge of Republicans getting wiped out in the midterms changes hearts and minds. Reality is, Israel is financially rich with state funded healthcare and college while Americans are financially suffering with a $40 trillion dollar national debt. And the majority of Americans are furious our tax dollars and military weapons have been used to kill 22,000 children in Gaza. Trump getting permission from Netanyahu to end annual aid to Israel isn’t going to change today’s election results. Nor is it going to end the war with Iran or stop Israel from murdering innocent Palestinians. But it does show you how bad the polling is on that issue.
— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) November 3, 2026
The former lawmaker said her amendment to strip funding for Israeli cooperative programs failed in the House last year, with only six members, including herself, voting in favor.
Greene said when she asked to cut the funding she was labelled antisem***. She also suggested that the prospect of losing the midterms had changed Republicans' approach to the issue.
“Amazing how being on the verge of Republicans getting wiped out in the midterms changes hearts and minds,” Greene said.
She further said that even if Netanyahu allowed Trump to end aid, the development would not help in the result of the midterms.
“Trump getting permission from Netanyahu to end annual aid to Israel isn’t going to change today’s election results,” she added.
Greene also brought up Iran and Gaza, arguing that the development would neither end the war with Iran nor change Israel's actions toward Palestinians.
Massie compares Israel aid with US spending on Iran war
Lawmaker Thomas Massie dismissed Trump's announcement as a minor move, claiming that the roughly $4 billion in annual aid was “pennies on the dollar” compared with the more than $50 billion he said the US had spent on the war with Iran on Israel's behalf.
This would be a start, but… 1) It’s pennies on the dollar. We’ve spent over $50 billion on the War with Iran on behalf of Israel. 2) The same American taxpayer funds will just flow through as military assistance/coordination instead of as a separate line item in the appropriations bills. 3) They spent $30 million against me because I was the only remaining Republican to oppose this foreign aid. You’d have to be a fool to think they’re going to end this. It’s a desperate Election Day lie.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 3, 2026
He also argued that the same taxpayer money would continue to reach Israel through military assistance and coordination rather than as a separate item in the federal appropriations bills.
The lawmaker further claimed that groups supporting aid to Israel had spent $30 million against him because he was the only remaining Republican to oppose the funding.
He called Trump's announcement a “desperate Election Day lie,” arguing that the US would not actually end its support for Israel.
“Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4 billion a year, and we made a deal months ago that we’re stopping,” Trump said during a telephonic interview with Fox News, adding that the money would get “cut off at the end of the year.”
