Other than for Israel I don’t see the need. Maybe gifting older warships or aircraft to allies. That’s about it. We are not the global ATM.
We can better use the money to hire the 15,000 ICE and Border patrol, and build the wall.
Got save money where its wasted.
“We are not the global ATM.”
I spent 30 years in the military industrial complex, MIC. The aid is not for foreign powers, per se. It serves several other purposes. It keeps the military industrial complex spun up and producing. Without the fairly constant stream of orders going to Saudi Arabia and Namibia huge quantities of the gear the US buys for itself would be unavailable, the buildings closed the tooling sold. Another issue is supporting a friendly regime so it isn’t replaced by a hostile regime. Then there’s the unemployed MIC workers who don’t have skills easily sold in the civilian world, aircraft power supply designers, for example. The number of individual, hard bought skills is huge and not easily transferred to civilian work.
I am not saying Trump shouldn’t give a hard look at who gets what, but he might want to think through the ramifications of shutting down or drastically reducing aid.