The Biden administration has asked Congress to extend a form of military aid for Ukraine, which will expire if it is not used by September 30.
The Pentagon said there is $5.9 billion left for Ukraine spending under the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the US to ship weapons directly from its military stockpiles.
Out of the $5.9 billion, $5.8 billion will expire if not extended by the end of the fiscal year. The administration wants Congress to include the extension in a continuing resolution that might be passed before September 30.
“The [Defense] Department will continue to provide drawdown packages in the near future and is working with Congress to seek an extension of PDA authorities beyond the end of the fiscal year,” Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told The Hill.
The Biden administration could use a good portion of the $5.8 billion by the end of the month as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Saturday that the US was preparing a “substantial” weapons package for Ukraine.
Twice, the administration has claimed that it undervalued weapons it shipped to Ukraine, freeing up billions of more dollars in PDA. In July, the Pentagon said it discovered $2 billion in “accounting errors” that made more PDA available, and in 2023, it found $6.2 billion.
Too bad we can't make the Biden crime family payback all their loot.
Touché ole!
They can't even get rid of the demented old Biden, not even impeach the demented war criminal he continues his criminality non-stop regardless of how mad he really is.
There should be an arrest warrant out on him for war-crimes.
I'm sure glad they are going to spend billions on US infrastructure and fix all these potholes. Oh, you mean they're not?
Hurry Hurry! Your weapons coupons are about to expire!
LOL sadly
I doubt there will be a NATO left. Putin can lean back and watch how the EU and NATO self-destruct. Thanks to Biden's outstanding competence of destruction. Like Kissinger said, Friendship with the USA is fatal.
I can see Congress would be outraged. …Nope. …Not because they're against giving Ukraine another $6 Billions. It's because he should have asked the same for Israel.
He will when the time comes.
“Bye-done”, is getting on my ass, with all this dang business!
I would prefer he be removed via an impeachment. We need some closure with this ugly clown show.
Impeach now.
The Deep State is in control, no matter who is president, demented or not.
Doesn't matter to me. I want to see judgments in real time, before the history of these criminals becomes a cartoon for the idiot masses.
I wish all the money and weapons sent to Ukraine and Israel would be counterfeit and the weapons sent to them would self- destruct on arrival.
The nation is funding continues wars with continuing resolutions, and that is called governing. That is easy enough for any president even a demented one.
Ukraine, a bottomless barrel, lost wars are really profitable, lost lives don't count as long as they are not American vote related.
It's 476AD.
According to one bizarre Commenter on this site, "476 AD" is about a thousand years before ( !! ) the Roman Empire fell.
Because some obscure Russian mathematician, and Sir Isaac Newton, and some Soviet folk-hero tween who ratted out his Dad to the State, all think historians were doing math wrong on how we count years.
Also the Crusades never happened; apparently the Catholic Church invented them when they created a "false history" in the 1600's, I guess to make the RCC look good by having launched 8 or 9 of 'em against civilians whose 'crime' was being Moslem.
It's bulls**t all the way down & "M" (not M64) is past his eyebrows in it.
Maybe he's talking about 1453, the year Constantinople fell to the Turks? That would have been the end of the Eastern Empire.
War is so profitable they'll want to invest American kids soon.
Why doesn't Biden ask the taxpayer "to Extend Nearly $6 Billion in Ukraine Aid"?