Fitzpatrick told reporters that he is holding discussions with his House colleagues about potentially setting aside funds to support Ukraine during its war with Russia — in addition to the $200 billion the Trump administration’s Department of War is seeking in supplemental funding to finance Operation Epic Fury, according to a Thursday X post from Puck News Chief Washington Correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell. “I think, you know, we’re also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was, which was depleting those stock holes and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine, which is when — every time we reach back and look at any sort of a challenge we have, it goes back to, well, send it to Ukraine,” the War secretary said. As of late February, Congress had allocated $188 billion — roughly the same figure as the Pentagon’s current Iran request — related to Ukraine’s war, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reported at the time, citing the U.S. Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve.
Author: Anthony Iafrate
Published at: 2026-03-20 23:31:57
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