{"id":92159,"date":"2024-01-18T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=92159"},"modified":"2024-01-18T23:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T23:18:26","slug":"pentagon-official-says-dod-ukraine-defense-funding-are-important-to-u-s-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=92159","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Official Says DOD, Ukraine Defense Funding Are Important to U.S. Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>\n    As Congress continues deliberations on the fiscal 2024 budget, the Defense Department is operating under a continuing resolution, said Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh at a press conference today.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge Congress to pass a full-year appropriation in addition to our urgent supplemental funding request in order to strengthen our national security and support for our allies and partners,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singh noted that the last presidential drawdown package for Ukraine was in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s crucially important that Ukraine has the resources it needs\u2014including air defense and artillery capabilities\u2014to defend itself against Russia&#8217;s brutal invasion,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress&#8217; continued failure to act endangers the United States\u2019 national security, the NATO alliance and the rest of the free world,&#8221; she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Singh said Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is working from home and participating in Pentagon meetings remotely after a two-week stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was treated for prostate cancer. Walter Reed is located in Bethesda, Maryland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know we&#8217;re certainly wishing him a speedy recovery, and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s wanting to come back [to the Pentagon] as soon as he can,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austin&#8217;s doctors have said early diagnosis and treatment led to an excellent prognosis, and the secretary is expected to make a full recovery, said Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/3648341\/austin-leaves-hospital-returns-home\/\" target=\"_self\">briefing yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austin will continue to undergo physical therapy while at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Congress continues deliberations on the fiscal 2024 budget, the Defense Department is operating under a continuing resolution, said Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh at a press conference today. &#8220;We urge Congress to pass a full-year appropriation in addition to our urgent supplemental funding request in order to strengthen our national security and support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":92161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92162,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92159\/revisions\/92162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}