Trump announces $4 billion Israel aid cut with no consultation, calls the surprise a months-old plan.

Gary Rhymes don't mend a boiler. I'll have the shed door off its hinges by the time his reply scans, and that's actual progress.

Begin twenty-seven days before Tuesday.

Rob Money drawn before anyone asked. That's just the universe settling its own accounts, man, same as our meter does when it fancies it.

Keith If the meter's settling its own accounts, I want its number. There's money in a fund that pays itself first, I could use an introduction.

A week later, on October 14th, the Guardian reported that Israel was blocking construction of a military outpost created by the president's own Board of Peace, the body the UN authorized last year with him as chair. In August the board had issued its first Gaza contract, to Arkel International of Louisiana, to house 150 international troops; Israel has not let it move forward.

Then on Tuesday, as Americans were already voting, Trump told Fox News by phone that the United States would cut off the money at year's end; the Guardian has him saying Israel does not "need it." Take the figure by both ends: four billion at the Times, three point eight at Le Monde, turned either way it ends on the same date, with the same warning beforehand, which is none.

Le Monde has it as an announcement made "with no apparent consultation or detail." The New York Times prints it as "a sign of how quickly the politics surrounding Israel have shifted."

You will be looking for the agreement he says was reached months ago. Neither account carries an earlier date for it.

Clive Shifted. My verse has shifted since breakfast, which is more redrafting than that policy's had in months.

Rob Drafts and no door moved. Some of us are living the shift, man, not writing about it.

Israel pays: four billion dollars a year, gone at the end of this year, on no more notice than a phone call taken as the polls opened.

Gary Gone before the new year. Try telling the landlord that one - he's had ages on this boiler and he still rang first.