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Sustaining the Edge: Congressman Ronny Jackson on US-Israel Technology and Security

Published May 1, 2026 | Video Starts at 50:48

The plan is this year to go up to 1.1 trillion in the budget and then another 350 billion in reconciliation for a total of $1.5 trillion in defense spending. The goal is to get to 5% of our GDP, you know, in defense spending. Right. Which is what we ask most other countries, NATO countries and other countries to do as well. So our goal is to get there. (50:48–50:55)

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“Thanks to the coordinated US and Israel campaigns, more than 85% of Iranian regime's defense industrial base, including the majority of its…”
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“US Israel co-production of missile defense capabilities occurs in over 102 company locations across 34 states in the United States.”
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“Israel spends currently in this wartime footing over 8.8% of their GDP on defense.”
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“The Iron Beam laser system... could intercept threats for as little as 2 to $4 per shot.”
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“They could have weapons-grade uranium in a matter of like four to six weeks.”
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“The U.S. provides Israel with $3.3 billion in foreign military financing every year.”
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“The success of Operation Epic Fury against Iranian aggression, where we decisively destroyed the regime's offensive missiles, their…”
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“Their [Israel's] own government commissions have recommended adding 30 billion to their military spending over the next decade.”
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“The Iranians provided the capabilities that led to October 7th.”
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“Meanwhile, the US and Israel have established air superiority, the Iranian navy has been decimated and most of the nuclear capability has…”
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“The Arrow 2 and the Arrow 3 system successfully countered Iranian attacks marking a historic achievement in ballistic missile defense.”
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“Israel itself has embraced this concept, becoming a global leader in advanced military technologies.”
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“American soldiers directly benefit [from Israeli technology]; our M1 Abrams tank [is] protected by the Israeli developed Trophy system.”
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“Our Bradley fighting vehicles utilize the Iron Fist active protection system.”
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“Even our F35 pilots wear helmets developed through [US-Israel] partnership.”
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“Our current Memorandum of Understanding [provides] 3.8 billion in annual support [to Israel] expires... on 9-30-2028.”
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“I have... led the introduction of the United States Israel Framework for Upgraded Technologies, Unified Research and Enhanced Security, or…”
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“This bill would create a formal United States Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.”
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“We don't do any economic aid [to Israel].”
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“We really need to make sure that Israel is very capable in order to maintain a certain level of security in the Middle east.”
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“It's getting good traction. We'll see pretty soon here because it's still in committee in the House and the Senate.”
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“The leadership, Armed Services leadership is very supportive of getting it in there.”
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“This is a bipartisan bill.”
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“The Israelis are very good at developing new technology, even stuff that's not defense related.”
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“This bill basically says that we're going to promote it by bringing it here to the United States, manufacturing much of it here.”
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“We're taking the Shahid drones, and everybody's reverse engineering those.”
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“We cannot adapt as quickly as our enemies can right now.”
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“The bureaucracy, the defense industrial base that we lack in certain areas and just everything that's involved with the acquisition and…”
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“If we don't develop an ability to bring smaller companies, you know, US Companies into play, and actually even companies that aren't US…”
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“All of our Arab allies would get in the fight with us and would share our enthusiasm in going after Iran.”
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“It has really consolidated the entire Middle East, you know, whether it's the Israelis or our Arab partners against Iran.”
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“That regime has got to go.”
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“Iran was on the verge of having a nuclear weapon at some point.”
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“They were building up stockpiles of thousands and thousands of cruise and ballistic missiles and drones.”
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“We have troops operating all over the Middle East, right? It's not just Israel.”
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“They're in range of all of these ballistic and cruise missiles that [Iran] have.”
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“President Trump is unique in his ability to do something like this, something that many presidents probably wanted to do.”
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“President Trump's instincts are pretty good, and if he feels like he wants to do something, it's going to take a lot to get him off of that.”
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“They doubled down with their proxies with Hezbollah and with the Houthis and with the Shia militias in Iraq.”
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“President Trump has put his foot down.”
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“He's not worried about the reelection.”
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“We didn't have a US blockade restricting ships coming in and out of Iranian ports and impacting their economy the way we do now.”
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“He's done everything he possibly can to strike purely military targets, stay away from their infrastructure.”
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“The blockade is the first step where he's really crushing their economy by cutting off their oil revenue.”
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“At some point, I think that when the economy is so bad, there will be a turn where the regime has internal pressures that they can't…”
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“The Iranian regime is a common adversary for the U.S., Israel, and Arab allies.”
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“The kill percentage of interceptors has increased, and the number of interceptors used has decreased.”
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“There is $150 million in the bill to incentivize defense industry cooperation between the U.S. and Israel.”
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“There's been a concerted effort to build up the US Defense industrial base directly or with incentives.”
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“The U.S. and Israel have a defense partnership that involves technology sharing and production at scale.”
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“The U.S. has a fully networked air defense system in the Middle East with Arab neighbors and Israel.”
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“If we turned it over to the Democrats right now, they would reduce defense spending pretty significantly.”
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“The quality of the Chinese system, their ships, their aircraft, their, you know, the air defense, the quality is just really dramatically…”
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“They're producing not only massive numbers of systems, but they're producing high quality systems.”
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“China, they're going to challenge us in the future.”
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