The actual situation for the Biden admin is that there Is $4B in aid money left over…..
In addtion?
The President HAS the ability to take American combat stocks and ship them TO Ukraine…
President Biden IS being whipsawed by House Republicans playing to Donald Trump and indirectly to Russain President Putin….
He may have to use his powers to get around the two….
The Biden administration is considering whether to provide Ukraine with badly needed arms and ammunition from Pentagon stockpiles even though the government has run out of money to replace those munitions, according to two U.S. officials and a senior lawmaker.
Such a move would be a short-term measure to help tide over Ukraine’s armed forces until Congress breaks a monthslong impasse and approves a larger military aid package to the country, the officials said.
But in considering whether to tap into the Pentagon stockpiles again, the administration is weighing both the political risks and questions about American military readiness.
“It’s something that I know is on the table,” Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who leads the Armed Services Committee, said in an interview. Mr. Reed, who recently returned from a trip to Ukraine, said he would support such a stopgap measure in “incremental uses to buy time.”…
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The United States has provided Ukraine with some $44.2 billion in military aid since Russia launched its full-scale invasion two years ago.
About half that amount has been sent under what is called presidential drawdown authority. That allows the administration to immediately transfer Pentagon stocks to Ukraine instead of waiting the several months or years it can take for defense contractors to manufacture weapons under new contracts. The last shipment was in December.
The administration still has authority from Congress to draw down about $4 billion worth of weapons and ammunition. But it exhausted a separate fund in December that replenished munitions the United States had donated to Ukraine. Pentagon and White House officials have said since then that they were not prepared to risk U.S. military readiness to dip into Defense Department stockpiles without being able to replace them.
That thinking is changing, mainly because of Ukraine’s increasingly dire predicament on the battlefield….
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Military officials say they are ready to rush artillery ammunition, air defense interceptors and other arms to Ukraine as soon as they get the green light….