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DEEPENING DEFENSE COOPERATION AND REGIONAL SECURITY: President Trump is advancing U.S. national security by forging agreements that enhance regional deterrence, grow the American industrial base, and ensure that partners like Saudi Arabia shoulder more responsibility for countering shared threats.

President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed the U.S.-Saudi Strategic Defense Agreement (SDA), a historic agreement that strengthens our more than 80-year defense partnership and fortifies deterrence across the Middle East.
The SDA is a win for the America First agenda, making it easier for U.S. defense firms to operate in Saudi Arabia, securing new burden-sharing funds from the Saudi Arabia to defray U.S. costs, and affirming that the Kingdom views the United States as its primary strategic partner.

•The President secured agreements reinforcing America’s role as a regional security enabler, enhancing our U.S. military partnerships to better allow partners to deter and defeat threats.

•President Trump approved a major defense sale package, including future F-35 deliveries, which strengthens the U.S. defense industrial base and ensures Saudi Arabia continues to buy American.

•The President secured an agreement for Saudi Arabia to purchase nearly 300 American tanks, enabling Saudi Arabia to build up its own defense capabilities and safeguarding hundreds of American jobs.

DRIVING AMERICAN ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND JOB CREATION: President Trump is unlocking unprecedented opportunities for U.S. businesses, exporters, and workers by expanding market access, reducing barriers, and channeling massive Saudi investments into American innovation and infrastructure.

•Saudi Arabia’s nearly $1 trillion investment commitment into U.S. infrastructure, technology, and industry—rising from the $600 billion initially secured during the President’s May visit and now expanded this week—will flow directly into American communities.