Welcome to the last Ukraine Update of the year.
Not a lot of activity took place over the last week with Congress out of town. The Pentagon approved a $250 million aid package to Ukraine. It is billed as “the last” aid package until Congress appropriates more money. That isn’t all that accurate. The Pentagon has about $4.2 billion remaining in Presidential Drawdown Authority. The NDAA authorized $300 million for Ukraine aid. There are enough ways to continue providing Ukraine with needed support via reprogramming existing funds (the way Trump funded a small segment of the border wall) and other existing legislative authority by May-June; a lot of the slack will be out of the system. As I said in my last update, unfortunately, behind our paywall, I think the linkage of Ukraine/Israel military aid to border security is nothing but Failure Theater generated by Speaker Johnson for…
