Cutting off the flow of U.S. weapons and equipment will
kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield․ Director of the White House
Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young wrote this in a letter to
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson.
“There is no magical pot of funding available to meet this
moment. We are out of money—and nearly out of time,” she wrote.
As Young noted, if Congress doesn’t approve additional
funding by the end of the year, the U.S. won’t have the necessary resources to
procure additional weapons and equipment for Ukraine or to provide resources
from existing U.S. military stockpiles.
Officials in the U.S. and Europe fear that Russian President
Vladimir Putin will be able to outlast the political will of Western countries
to continue aiding Ukraine.
