The Pentagon told Congress it doesn’t have the money to replace all of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
The Defense Department only has enough money to give weapons to Ukraine for six months.
The letter comes after Congress eliminated Ukraine funding from the stopgap bill it passed over the weekend:
Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord told House and Senate leaders there is $1.6 billion left of the $25.9 billion Congress provided to replenish U.S. military stocks that have been flowing to Ukraine. The weapons include millions of rounds of artillery, rockets and missiles critical to Ukraine’s counteroffensive aimed at taking back territory gained by Russia in the war.
In addition, the U.S. has about $5.4 billion left to provide weapons and equipment from its stockpiles. The U.S. would have already run out of that funding if the Pentagon hadn’t realized earlier this year that it had overvalued the equipment it had already sent, freeing up about $6.2 billion. Some of that has been sent in recent months.
Sending Ukraine military aid has already put a dent in our forces.
McCord warned, “Failure to replenish our military services on a timely basis could harm our military’s readiness.”
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