We Need Defense Production Act for Seven Years Javelins We Want Through in Ukraine, Not Green New Deal

On Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus” Tuesday, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) said the United States “burned seven years worth of Javelin missiles in Ukraine. And we don’t have the ability right now to buy these things in the quantities we need and stockpile them,” and we have to invoke the Defense Production Act for that, not “Green New Deal projects that are really meant to appease the progressive base of the Democratic Party.”

Gallagher said [relevant remarks begin around 8:15] friendship with Taiwan “will involve some tough talk. We are trying to convince the Taiwanese to invest in these so-called asymmetric systems and not buy some legacy capabilities that we believe would be less effective. But the better our overall diplomatic relationship is, I think the better positioned we are to continue this conversation. You mentioned Ukraine, the hard math is that we just burned seven years worth of Javelin missiles in Ukraine. And we don’t have the ability right now to buy these things in the quantities that we need and store them, not only in Europe, but also in the Indo-Pacific. That’s why we need a crash program. That’s why we need to use the Defense Production Act, not Green New Deal projects that are really meant to appease the progressive base of the Democratic Party.”