Given the recent discussion of US funding for Israel it is worth looking at hard numbers as for better or worse this is longstanding US foreign policy at work.
The funding allocated by the US congress to Israel has remained virtually constant in inflation adjusted terms through the presidencies of Reagan Bush Clinton Bush Obama Trump Biden.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/total-u-s-foreign-aid-to-israel-1949-present
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