The looming ammunition shortage isn’t for lack of funds, according to those familiar with the issue. The U.S. announced this week that it was setting aside nearly $3 billion for long-term aid intended to help Ukraine, bringing the total spent on weaponry for the country to $14 billion, and the Biden administration’s Pentagon budget request for next year is $773 billion.
What is needed, she said, is for the government to spend money to fix the problem.
“There are some problems you can buy your way out of,” she said. “This is one of them.”
>The looming ammunition shortage isn’t for lack of funds, according to those familiar with the issue. The U.S. announced this week that it was setting aside nearly $3 billion for long-term aid intended to help Ukraine, bringing the total spent on weaponry for the country to $14 billion, and the Biden administration’s Pentagon budget request for next year is $773 billion.
>What is needed, she said, is for the government to spend money to fix the problem.
>“There are some problems you can buy your way out of,” she said. “This is one of them.”
[Money printers go brrrr.](https://youtu.be/ZLlcv5nAm2Y)
@0K
(post is archived)