Michigan Senator-Elect El-Sayed Backs Trump Plan on Israel Aid
Michigan's first Muslim senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed, said he agrees with President Trump on ending aid to Israel and called for an end to arms sales.
NPR reported that Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan's first Muslim senator-elect, welcomed President Trump's plan to cut aid to Israel and called for an end to arms sales. In an NPR report by Steve Inskeep, El-Sayed discussed his victory, an agreement with Trump on Israel military aid that NPR described as unlikely, and the political divisions that remain.
The Hill reported that El-Sayed, the Democratic senator-elect from Michigan, said on Thursday that he supported Trump's recent plan to stop aid to Israel. In a separate report from The Hill, the plan is described as a halt to aid, while NPR called it a cut. The two reports use different wording, and neither reports the plan's terms in full.
On MS NOW's Morning Joe, El-Sayed said, "I agree with him on that," according to The Hill. He added that he did not think it should continue subsidizing a foreign military, though The Hill's excerpt ends before that sentence is complete.
Neither NPR's summary nor The Hill's excerpt describes the political divisions that NPR says remain, so the disagreements El-Sayed faces are not detailed in the available material. According to the two summaries available, neither report names the specific aid programs involved or says when the plan would take effect.
Sources: NPR: Abdul El-Sayed welcomes Trump's plan to cut Israel aid, calls for end to arms sales; The Hill: El-Sayed backs Trump plan to end Israel aid: ‘I agree with him on that’.