Abdul El-Sayed: “We Need To Stop Selling Weaponry to Foreign Governments That Use It To Do the Worst Things, Including Genocide and Apartheid and War.”

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed is in agreement with President Donald Trump’s decision to end financing Israel and shared some of his ideas.

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has widened his argument beyond a single war. On November 12, 2026, Michigan’s senator-elect shared an NPR interview on X. The caption put the case in one sentence about American weapons exports.

“We need to stop selling weaponry to foreign governments that use it to do the worst things, including genocide and apartheid and war.”

The line came with a link to NPR’s November 4 interview. In it, El-Sayed endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan to stop funding Israel’s military. The two men spent the campaign trading attacks. Israel policy also split his own party. On this question, though, they agree. El-Sayed ran Detroit’s health department from 2015 to 2017. He campaigned on Medicare for All and became the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

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Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed Backs Ending US Military Aid to Israel, Calls for Domestic Investment

Trump announced the cutoff on Fox & Friends on November 3, 2026. He said the roughly $4 billion would stop at the close of the year. One write-up of the exchange noted that Benjamin Netanyahu had raised the idea himself. The standing agreement pays $3.8 billion a year through 2028. How the cuts would work remains unclear.

President Trump confirmed that while Washington will no longer be providing funds, the country is still willing to offer support if Israel makes a request. On the other hand, El-Sayed suggested stopping the sale of weapons to other countries, which would lead to more harm than good.

“I’d also like to see us stop selling weaponry that gets used to do the worst things, including genocide and apartheid, to Israel.”

He applies the same test to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Pakistan. Abdul El-Sayed suggested it is best to keep the tax dollars of Americans within the country and use the budget to make improvements to their home.

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