Massie says Israel seeks to fold support into US defence budgets

What was said

""But the the longer term thing outside of the war with Iran that Israel wants is to burrow in like a tick into our uh national defense authorization. They don't want to be called out as a separate line item because they know popularity for foreign aid is going down in the United States.""

Massie argues Israel has an incentive to shift from visible, line-item foreign assistance to arrangements embedded in broader US defence authorisations and procurement, which he says would be harder for the public to track. He frames Section 219 of the NDAA as part of that trend, though he does not present documentary evidence beyond his reading of the legislation and his interpretation of political incentives.