The Pentagon is claiming that it will need an additional $10 billion in weaponry in order to replenish their supply after sending many stockpiles of weapons over to Ukraine in recent years to fight their endless proxy war against Russia.
The U.S. Senate has approved the additional $10 billion to the Pentagon as part of a $95 billion bill to enhance foreign military aid, but the legislation has not yet been picked up by the U.S. House. The Pentagon is nervous as a result of the bill’s stalling and are very predictably claiming that the U.S. military will be harmed if the taxpayer money is not spent.
“It would come back on our own readiness on our own stockpile to a certain extent if we can’t get new funding,” a DoD official told Politico. The Pentagon still has the ability to send over $4.1 billion to the Ukraine as part of the presidential drawdown authority. They have reportedly given at least $44 billion to the country since the war with Russia started in Feb. 2022.