it means that it is Americans voluntarily choosing to donate this money. it seems perfectly plausible to me that there are enough very pro-Israel Americans to fund an organization like AIPAC.

The key question is whether AIPAC is taking actions at "the direction or control” of Israel, but the money is pretty clearly not being sourced from Israel.

100% of AIPAC money is from Americans.

Source on the middle class shrinking? How can both the middle and working class be shrinking? Real median incomes are increasing.

We could liquidate all billionaire wealth and raise taxes on income >$500k to 100% and it would not close the fiscal hole.

I didn’t mention it because I was only mentioning the options that will avert our fiscal crisis.

Defense is 12% of federal spending, not 52%. Definitely a bigger impact & waste than science budgets, I agree - but even cutting 100% of it would not close our hole. As I said, I’m no big fan of DOGE — but the problem is a real one despite the common tendency to put fingers in our ears or propose non-solutions, whether of the ‘tax the rich’, ‘cut DEI spending’, or ‘end all military expenditures’ variety. Not a single one of those or combination gets us there. We have to make real hard choices.