The United States is preparing to announce a decision `` in the coming days '' on assistance to Egypt , the White House said Tuesday , and U.S. officials told CNN military aid will be cut , though not all of it . The announcement comes in the wake of the July coup against President Mohamed Morsy and the turmoil that has followed as recently as this week , one U.S. official said Tuesday . However , some military aid could continue , including funds to uphold Egypt 's obligations under its peace treaty with Israel , and money for counterterrorism and security in Sinai , where extremists have been able to set up base , according to a senior U.S. official . The United States will also maintain nonmilitary funding that helps democracy promotion , the official said . In an initial report about the announcement , CNN did not specify that these portions of the aid would continue . Mohamed Morsy gets trial date as Egypt turmoil continues . The Obama administration withheld some military aid to Egypt in August . Another U.S. official , speaking on condition of anonymity , said the move to suspend assistance -- more than $ 1 billion is given each year -- has been prompted by an `` accumulation of events , '' including recent violence against protesters , dozens of whom were killed over the weekend . The United States has not yet notified the Egyptians of the decision to cut off military aid , a senior official said . The announcement is not expected to be made on Wednesday and has already been pushed back a few times , the official said . In a statement late Tuesday , National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said an announcement is coming soon but denied the United States is `` halting all military assistance . '' `` We will announce the future of our assistance relationship with Egypt in the coming days , but as the president made clear at UNGA , that assistance relationship will continue , '' Hayden said in a statement . Any decision to cut aid would not preclude resuming the aid should Egypt make what the United States believes are positives steps towards restoring democracy , officials said . Death toll rises as violence rages . U.S. national security advisers recommended to the president last month that aid should be cut , U.S. officials told CNN in September . The recommendation , officials said , was made in a `` principals meeting '' of the president 's national security team , including National Security Adviser Susan Rice , Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel . The meeting was the culmination of months of debate within the administration about how to respond to the July 3 ouster of Morsy , Egypt 's first democratically elected leader . In addition to the suspension of some military aid earlier this year , there has also been a severe slowdown in military shipments from the United States to Egypt , including F-16s . The Obama administration has not labeled Morsy 's removal from office a coup . Such a designation would require a cut in all but humanitarian aid . In the past , the White House has said it was in U.S. national security interests to keep the aid intact . But after U.S. calls to the Egyptian military for restraint over the last few months were met with a heavy-handed crackdown on Morsy supporters , Obama canceled a joint military exercise and announced a new review of U.S. aid to Egypt . Last month , U.S. officials said Obama 's national security team had recommended a cut in aid that included all foreign military financing to the Egyptian military , except funding toward security in the Sinai Peninsula and along the Egyptian border with Gaza . `` This has been coming for quite a while , actually , and President Obama signaled that the United States was slowing down aid to Egypt in his address at the United Nations just a couple of weeks ago , '' said Robin Wright , an Arab affairs analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . `` The United States has become increasingly disillusioned with the way that the military leadership has cracked down on its own people . Over 1,000 died in the early weeks after the military coup , and in the past week , you 've seen dozens more killed in confrontations . '' CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman said in the short-term , the U.S. decision could have a positive impact on the Egyptian government . `` Immediately , probably , the Egyptian government is going to find it 's going to gain somewhat in terms of local public opinion , '' Wedeman said . `` Egyptians I 've already been in touch with about this decision or announcement from the United States that it 's going to cut aid seem to react positively . There seems to be a lot of frustration with the United States , given its role in Egypt over the last 2½ years since the revolution . '' But do n't expect to see Egypt 's military hurting financially , Wedeman said . `` For the Egyptian government , a cutoff in U.S. aid is symbolically significant , but in terms of the actual amount of money they 're getting , it will not make a big difference , '' he said . Wedeman said that 's because Gulf states have been pouring billions of dollars into Egypt since Morsy 's ouster . A move to cut off aid would likely anger those Gulf allies who have urged the United States to support the military and warned against stopping assistance . After weeks of relative calm , violent clashes in Egypt .
Spokesperson denies the U.S. is halting all military assistance . U.S. official : Recent violence against protesters is among the reasons . Suspension of military aid prompted by `` accumulation of events , '' official says . Another official says the United States has not yet notified Egypt of the decision .