President Donald Trump said that "with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?” | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Trump floats cutting payments to Palestinians

President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that the U.S. should consider cutting payments to the Palestinians, saying their officials “don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue peace treaty with Israel.”

"[W]e pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” the president posted on Twitter. Trump made the funding threat in a tweet on Tuesday, saying: "We pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect. "They don't even want to negotiate a long overdue ... peace treaty with Israel," he wrote. Trump's tweet implied that he intended to extract possible future concessions from Israel for his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and that in light of the subsequent Palestinian decision to stop all engagements with the Trump administration, he plans to significantly decrease American funding to the Palestinian Authority. 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"He doesn't want to give any additional funding until the Palestinians agree to come back to the negotiation table, and what we saw with the resolution was not helpful to the situation," Haley said.
President Donald Trump tweets that the U.S. may withhold future payments to the Palestinian authority, over 350 million dollars per year, because they are "no longer willing to talk peace" with Israel, and that Israel "would have had to pay more" in return for his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.