U.S. Plans $2.8 Billion Bomb Sale to Israel

The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion munitions package for Israel. It would include 40,000 2,000-pound bombs—20,000 MK-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s—plus 20,000 I-2000 penetrator warheads. The deal was informally presented to congressional committees and would be paid for by American taxpayers through the State Department’s Foreign Military Finance program. A senior administration official told Mediaite that all foreign arms sales move through the appropriate process and that the government does not comment on pending sales. Tucker Carlson posted on X about the deal shortly before the Washington Post report. He said an MK-84 has a destruction radius of half a mile, leaves craters thirty-five feet deep, and that the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza after October 7, including on more than 100 civilian evacuation zones. Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive-ordnance technician, told the Post Israel uses MK-84s to bring down whole buildings. Carlson said the request came from the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem under Mike Huckabee and David Milstein and was approved by Marco Rubio. No outlet disputes the package size or makeup. A prior 2025 deal worth $2.04 billion bypassed normal congressional review. Whether the current proposal advances remains open.