WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said it will be able to spend $6 billion more than originally expected on arms for Ukraine thanks to what it called accounting errors.
The Defense Department overstated the value of weapons sent from its stockpiles by $2.6 billion in fiscal 2022 and $3.6 billion in fiscal 2023, for a total of $6.2 billion, deputy spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters Tuesday at the Pentagon.
“It’s just going to go back into the pot of money that we have allocated” for Ukraine, she said, adding that it doesn’t alter the total amount of support authorized by Congress.
