The department is weighing options to keep arms flowing to ammunition-starved Ukraine, but there's no replacement for the aid package stalled in Congress.
Secretary Austin outlined U.S. production constraints and made the case to Congress for more funds to ramp up munitions production for Ukraine and Israel.
Twenty Senate Democrats wrote Biden expressing concerns over plans to offer Saudi Arabia security guarantees in exchange for normalizing ties with Israel.
The GOP presidential debate spotlighted the party's Ukraine rift, foreshadowing an upcoming congressional showdown on Biden's latest aid request for Kyiv.