{"id":1471791,"date":"2022-05-11T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471791"},"modified":"2022-05-11T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:00:21","slug":"americas-weapons-stockpiles-are-being-depleted-as-biden-arms-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-weapons-stockpiles-are-being-depleted-as-biden-arms-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Weapons Stockpiles Are Being Depleted As Biden Arms Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-weapons-stockpiles-are-being-depleted-as-biden-arms-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>America\u2019s weapons stockpiles are being depleted amid President Joe Biden\u2019s push to ship more equipment to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The House passed a nearly $40 billion bill \u2013 a significant increase compared to past packages and intended to further help Ukraine in its fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/russian-ammo-stockpile-ukraine-destroyed-viral-video\/\">Russia<\/a> \u2013 Wednesday. This bill alone includes over $20 billion in new weapons and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/13\/joe-biden-800-million-dollars-military-aid-ukraine-russia\/\">security<\/a> aid for Ukraine and also marks an increase from the $33 billion initially <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/28\/joe-biden-requests-33-billion-ukraine-aid\/\">proposed<\/a> by Biden in April.<\/p>\n<p>With the nearly $40 billion bill heading to the Senate, where it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/house-passes-40-billion-ukrainian-aid-package\">reportedly<\/a> has bipartisan support, some lawmakers have been sounding the alarm that U.S. weapons\u2019 stocks will \u2013 and are already \u2013 being depleted as the country continues giving equipment over to Ukraine. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-committing-genocide-ukraine\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Biden Says Putin Committing \u2018Genocide\u2019 In Ukraine)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve blown through seven years worth of Javelin missiles in Ukraine, 30% of our Stinger stockpile \u2013 these are missiles systems that we are going to need going forward, particularly if we are going to try and help Taiwan defend itself from a prospective Chinese invasion of the island,\u201d\u00a0Republican Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/house-passes-40-billion-ukrainian-aid-package\">told<\/a> Fox News on Tuesday. \u201cAnd that is what really worries me over the next few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher continued on to accuse the Pentagon of providing \u201cno plan\u201d on the process of buying certain equipment to replenish the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/09\/china-nuclear-weapons-us-taiwan\/\">stockpile<\/a> over time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urgently need to rebuild our stockpiles,\u201d he reiterated later on in the segment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/J1yCb\">opinion<\/a>\u00a0piece published April 14, warned that a whopping one-third of America\u2019s \u201coverall stockpile of Javelin anti-tank missiles\u201d had already been provided to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt [the U.S.] cannot easily deliver more without leaving its own armories badly depleted \u2014 and it may take months or years to significantly ramp up production,\u201d the opinion piece noted.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared unconcerned about depleting the stockpile, telling Congress on May 3 that the U.S. can replace its stocks in less than one year using supplemental funds that were requested, AirForceMag.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/as-number-of-us-javelins-dwindle-biden-pushes-for-more-funding-to-replenish-stockpiles\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyline-p f4\">\u201cIt\u2019s very critical to maintain what we consider to be minimum-required stockage levels, and you can rest assured that I will not allow us to go below that in critical munitions,\u201d Austin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/2022-05-03\/ukraine-russia-war-weapons-stockpiles-austin-javelins-stingers-5884318.html\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cAt this point, I think we\u2019re in pretty good shape, and industry is responding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, some appear worried that manufacturers will struggle to produce the amount of weapons necessary to keep up with the demand of arming Ukraine and replenishing America\u2019s stockpile.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blumenthal.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/release\/senator-blumenthal-week-in-review-04\/22\/202204\/29\/2022\">called for<\/a> the Defense Production Act (DPA) to be used to help continue arming Ukraine in a way that will also ensure America\u2019s stockpiles can be replenished.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal argued in late April that the \u201clatest surge of weapons to Ukraine marks a major challenge to manufacturers.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/in-brief\/what-defense-production-act\">DPA<\/a>, an initiative Blumenthal wants used, gives the president significant control over domestic industries in case of a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is rapidly depleting its inventories of key arms \u2013 needing urgent restocking,\u201d Blumenthal said at the time. \u201cUtilize the Defense Production Act. U.S. has given 1\/3 of our Javelin missiles to Ukraine \u2014 with many more needed. At current pace \u2014 unacceptably \u2014 a year is necessary to produce 1,000. Proof that we need the Defense Production Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, America is sending Ukraine weapons like Howitzers, M113 Armored Personnel Carriers, Javelins &#038; Stingers from our own supplies. Our cupboards will be bare \u2014 endangering our security \u2014 without the DPA. Manufacturers need a clear demand signal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s weapons stockpiles are being depleted amid President Joe Biden\u2019s push to ship more equipment to Ukraine.The House passed a nearly $40 billion bill \u2013 a significant increase compared to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1482622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}