{"id":2042384,"date":"2023-09-23T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-cant-make-this-up-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-from-potential-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2023-09-23T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T15:25:10","slug":"you-cant-make-this-up-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-from-potential-government-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-cant-make-this-up-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-from-potential-government-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon spares Ukraine operations from shutdown."},"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\">12<\/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%2Fyou-cant-make-this-up-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-from-potential-government-shutdown%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=2042384&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--><h2>If\u2062 the House of\u200b Representatives Fails to \u2062Fund the Government, Ukraine Aid \u200bWill Continue<\/h2>\n<p>If the House of Representatives fails to \u2063find a way to fund the government before the shutdown deadline at the end of the month, many services provided by the federal government to residents of the U.S. domestically and citizens overseas\u2062 will cease, albeit temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is \u2062one exception to this. \u2064U.S. aid to Ukraine will\u200c continue, according \u2062to a statement from a Department of Defense spokesman \u200cThursday that seemed to reverse\u200b the Pentagon\u2019s position as\u200c communicated by the same spokesman only two\u2064 days \u2063earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperation Atlantic Resolve is\u200c an excepted activity under\u2064 a government lapse in appropriations,\u201d DOD spokesman Chris Sherwood said in a Thursday statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-erupt-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-aid-potential-us-government-shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, referring to the government\u2019s name for the operation to support Ukraine in its \u2064defense against last year\u2019s \u2062Russian \u2064invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Only two days earlier, Sherwood had told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/09\/19\/us-shutdown-ukraine-weapons-training-00116727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> in \u2062an email that the looming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hardball-marjorie-taylor-greene-threatens-government-shutdown-unless-biden-impeachment-inquiry-vote-happens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government shutdown<\/a> threatened to press \u2062pause on the \u201cdelivery of defense articles, \u200dservices and\/or \u200bmilitary\u2063 education and training\u201d for the embattled European nation.<\/p>\n<p>According \u200cto the DOD\u2019s \u201cContingency Plan Guidance for Continuation of Essential Operations in the Absence of Available Appropriations,\u201d a planning document created in August, all military operations \u201cnecessary for national security\u201d would, understandably, be exempted from any shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>For example, as Politico pointed\u2064 out, U.S. military action against\u2063 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-horror-uncovered-former-islamic-state-stronghold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic State group<\/a> under former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/going-convictions-donald-trump-election-alan-dershowitz-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> continued during the 2018 government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, \u201c[t]he Secretary of Defense may, at any\u2063 time, determine that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-indiana-attorney-general-issues-official-advisory-for-public-schools-black-lives-matter-unequivocally-a-political-organization\/\" title=\"Exclusive -- Indiana Attorney General Issues Official Advisory for Public Schools: Black Lives Matter 'Unequivocally a Political Organization'\">additional activities<\/a> shall be treated as excepted,\u201d according to the document. (Interested readers will find the entire document available <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2023\/Sep\/12\/2003299418\/-1\/-1\/1\/GUIDANCE-FOR-CONTINUATION-OF-OPERATIONS-DURING-A-LAPSE-IN-APPROPRIATIONS.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Secretary of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/retired-officer-slams-austin-top-generals-not-standing-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lloyd Austin<\/a> designated Ukraine-related activities as excepted sometime between Sherwood\u2019s Tuesday and Thursday statements.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-donald-trump-says-joe-biden-not-old-president-will-age-become-factor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden<\/a>, 80, and his administration \u2014 \u200bmostly but not exclusively on \u200dthe right \u2014 seemed unsurprised but nonetheless \u200cangry about the Pentagon\u2019s shifting position.<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Jackson, \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">communications director<\/a> for Missouri\u200d Sen. Josh Hawley, called the decision \u201cincredibly offensive,\u201d for example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough of the insanity already,\u201d Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told Fox News in a statement published Friday. \u201cSeems like Biden fell asleep on the train\u2062 and got off at Ukraine instead of\u2062 America. I don\u2019t even know \u200cif he recognizes \u2062which country he\u2019s leading, he\u2019s so hellbent\u2064 on\u2064 sending every possible dollar to a \u2064country that we have no stake in while our own implodes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have zero interest in funding \u200dan eternal WWIII \u200cand that\u2019s the last thing Americans want,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t\u2064 make this up,\u201d Luna added on X, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can\u2019t\u2062 make \u2062this \u2063up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/odwVaIVD1f\">https:\/\/t.co\/odwVaIVD1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLuna\/status\/1705011800805142600?\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Others were just as troubled by the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How is this even legally possible? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c9sgLFPTTf\">https:\/\/t.co\/c9sgLFPTTf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2064 Mayra \u2064Flores (@MayraFlores_TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayraFlores_TX\/status\/1705033512233914434?\">September \u206222, \u200d2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even if Congress doesn\u2019t appropriate money, the \u2064Pentagon will keep\u200c funding\u2063 Ukraine. As I\u2019ve said, we do not have a representative government. We have not had one for a while.\u2064 We have an oligarchy \u200dwith the\u2064 ornamentation of representative government. \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G6k8D7joJJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/G6k8D7joJJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Amash (@justinamash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinamash\/status\/1705024241148522927?\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Biden administration thinks funding the protection\u2062 of Ukraine\u2019s border is more \u201cessential\u201d \u200dthan our own. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vylYMojlqL\">https:\/\/t.co\/vylYMojlqL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2064 Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepTiffany\/status\/1705211046389002669?\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Well this just says it all doesn\u2019t it.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9cE6LOQcas\">https:\/\/t.co\/9cE6LOQcas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1704996865916452973?\">September 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement came out on the same day that 29 Republican members of the House\u2062 and Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/29-gop-legislators-give-white-house-bad-news-ukraine-funding-day-zelenskyy-visits-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a letter<\/a> addressed to Office of Management and Budget \u200dDirector Shalanda Young informing here that they would not support further Ukrainian aid unless a number of questions were answered first \u2014 and possibly not even then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200bAmerican people deserve \u200dto know what their\u200b money has gone\u200c to,\u201d the \u2064letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cant-make-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-potential-government-shutdown\/\">&#8216;You Can&#8217;t Make This\u200b Up&#8217; &#8211; Pentagon Exempts Ukraine Operations From Potential Government Shutdown<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What are the criticisms and concerns raised regarding the Pentagon&#8217;s shifting position on aid to Ukraine and its impact on domestic issues<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Sentative\u2064 democracy!\u2063.\u2063 Terrorism seems to be the only thing Washington is good at fighting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IjzARJ54iU\">https:\/\/t.co\/IjzARJ54iU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 John\u200b\u200b Wilson \u2064(@JWilson1776) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JWilson1776\/status\/1705095070981435906?\">September 22, \u20632023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the decisions\u200d made by the Department of \u200bDefense regarding which \u200bactivities\u2063 will continue during a government shutdown are subject to \u200ccriticism, it is important to understand the \u200creasoning behind them.\u200b In the case \u200dof Ukraine aid, the continuation \u200cof support can be seen as a strategic move to maintain stability in\u200b the region and\u200b counteract Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has been battling Russian incursions for\u2062 several years, with tensions escalating particularly\u200b after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. The United States has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-west-rallies-behind-ukraine-putin-puts-nuclear-deterrent-on-alert\/\" title=\"As West Rallies Behind Ukraine, Putin Puts Nuclear Deterrent on Alert\">providing military assistance<\/a> to Ukraine to help bolster its defenses\u200c and\u2064 support its sovereignty. Operation Atlantic Resolve, specifically, aims to enhance the capabilities of Ukrainian forces and assist in deterring further Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Given the ongoing conflict and the importance of supporting Ukraine, it is understandable that the Department of Defense would \u200bprioritize this aid even in the face of a\u2062 government shutdown. National \u200dsecurity interests\u200b are crucial, and ensuring the defense of allies and partners is an essential part of U.S.\u200b foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>However, the shifting position of the Pentagon has \u200csparked criticism and \u200braised concerns about the allocation of resources\u200c and the priorities of the Biden administration. Critics argue that the focus should be on domestic issues \u200dand the needs of\u200b American citizens, rather than providing extensive aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna,\u200d for instance, expressed frustration over\u2063 the perceived lack of attention given to domestic issues. \u200dShe criticized the decision\u2063 to prioritize Ukraine and questioned whether President Biden fully recognizes\u200d the country he is leading. Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-cant-make-this-up-pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-from-potential-government-shutdown\/\" title=\"Pentagon spares Ukraine operations from shutdown.\">social media users echoed similar sentiments<\/a>, questioning the legality \u2063and reasoning behind the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the House of Representatives can&#8217;t fund the government by the month&#8217;s end, various federal services for U.S. residents and overseas citizens will temporarily halt. 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