Current aid to Israel is approximately 4B annually, and with Israeli yearly budget topping 250B, they could cut the 1.6%
The current US budget is over 7000B so it would save less than 0.1%, but politically it is very astute. Not worth the bad optics.
It was just last week that US president Donald Trump’s name was removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following a court order to do so, but when it came to taking the 80-year-old Republican’s name off the building, tarpaulin was erected to cover up the humiliating moment – tarpaulin which is yet to be taken down.
And with Trump already being branded a “snowflake” over the move, a group known as The Lincoln Project Advocacy (part of the wider anti-Trump Lincoln Project) took advantage of the tarpaulin still being up to beam a projection onto it – one highly critical of the president.