{"id":55518,"date":"2022-04-12T20:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/12\/pentagon-working-with-congress-on-additional-ukraine-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:04:56","slug":"pentagon-working-with-congress-on-additional-ukraine-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2022\/04\/12\/pentagon-working-with-congress-on-additional-ukraine-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon working with Congress on additional Ukraine funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Defense Department\u2019s No. 2 civilian official said Tuesday the Biden administration plans to ask Congress for money to pay for U.S. troop deployments in Eastern Europe \u2014 on the same day Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., floated the possibility of additional Ukraine funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about the potential for additional funding to respond to the crisis, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said the Pentagon is working with Congress to backfill the cost of U.S. forces surged to Eastern Europe. Those forces were not included in the FY23 budget request, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCongress on a bipartisan basis has been very forward leaning in terms of its interest in making sure they can help us be whole against those requirements,\u201d she said at a roundtable with reporters. \u201cAs we are able to kind of abrogate those costs, a lot of that is Army cost, in terms of Army movement. We make sure to capture those costs, and we\u2019re working with Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McConnell on Tuesday noted Congress may need to pass an additional funding bill to respond to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe may need to do another supplemental,\u201d McConnell said during remarks in his home state of Kentucky. \u201cThis is critically important that we win, that the Russians be defeated, that we do everything we can to punish them both on the economic side and military side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress finalized a $1.5 trillion spending bill last month that provides $13.6 billion in new aid for the Ukraine crisis. The money was in large part to restore military stocks of equipment already transferred to Ukrainian military units through the president\u2019s drawdown authority, while $3.1 billion was to cover \u201cdeployment, operational, and intelligence costs\u201d for U.S. forces deployed to Europe in response to the Russian actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legislation supporting Ukraine and punishing Russia has become easy fodder in recent weeks for an otherwise bitterly partisan Congress to pass into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joe Biden signed into law last week two separate bills penalizing Russia, which both the Senate and the House quickly passed before adjourning for a two-week recess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate passed both pieces of legislation \u2014 one bill banning Russian energy imports and another suspending normal trade relations with Moscow \u2014 by a 100-0 vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, the Senate unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/04\/07\/senate-passes-ukraine-bill-to-clear-hurdles-in-loaning-us-military-equipment-to-kyiv\/\" target=\"_blank\">passed another bill last week<\/a> intended to expedite military aid to Ukraine by easing statutory requirements under the president\u2019s authority to lease or loan defense articles to Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the House did not take action on the Ukraine bill before recessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hicks said the Biden administration is in a \u201ccontinuing dialogue\u201d with Ukrainian officials over the types of weapons it plans to send, and that presidential decisions on the matter are pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYes, we will continue to look at the type of capabilities that the Ukrainians are asking for in terms of how to give them more range and distance,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington is debating an increase to U.S. military deployments in Eastern Europe, which grew after Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014. 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