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House Republicans are divided on Ukraine aid, and some have also made an ambitious promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2023\/03\/10\/gop-blasts-inadequate-biden-defense-budget-as-it-vows-spending-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">slash discretionary spending by at least $130 billion even as they seek to grow the overall defense budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But excluding Ukraine aid from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/03\/09\/biden-proposes-pentagon-spending-increase-with-industrial-base-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\">the $842 billion in Pentagon spending<\/a> the Biden administration has requested for fiscal 2024 puts the onus on Congress \u2014 if it wants to continue to help Kyiv \u2014 to pass billions of dollars more in supplemental appropriations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pentagon budget officials attributed the decision to rely on supplementals to the uncertain nature of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUkraine support above the pre-conflict levels is not in this budget; the situation remains too fluid,\u201d Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters at Monday\u2019s budget rollout. \u201cThe way we\u2019re handling this is the way we\u2019ve handled every emerging situation in the last few years, and that\u2019s supplementals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republican divide over whether to continue aid to Kyiv \u2015 and Republican House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/01\/04\/mccarthys-troubled-speaker-bid-raises-questions-about-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2023\/01\/04\/mccarthys-troubled-speaker-bid-raises-questions-about-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">vow not to grant Ukraine a \u201cblank check\u201d<\/a> \u2015 has prompted House GOP leaders to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/budget\/2023\/02\/28\/house-republicans-tout-ukraine-oversight-brace-for-funding-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">spotlight the extensive oversight on Ukraine aid<\/a> and that U.S. weapons have not been diverted from their intended use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even some Democrats supportive of the aid have have begun to question the Biden administration\u2019s reliance on extra-budgetary means. 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Funds were appropriated through<b> <\/b>Overseas Contingency Operations spending packages outside the base budget, which some lawmakers likened to a \u201cbudget gimmick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Congressional Budget Office, emergency funds made up 2% of the Pentagon\u2019s budget between 1970 and 2000, but grew after Sept. 11, 2001 and peaked at 28% in 2007 and 2008. 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