Biden’s Ukraine Strategy Is Missing in Action

Longtime congressional staffers said that the Biden administration blowing through the deadline was par for the course for both Democratic and Republican administrations, which often have little regard for deadlines on Capitol Hill—even if they’re written into law.

“The idea that because you write a deadline for a report in the NDAA, it becomes a law, and the idea that that somehow is adhered to—not even close,” said Jonathan Lord, a senior fellow and director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security think tank in Washington, who was previously a staffer on the House Armed Services Committee. “I’ve received reports after begging and screaming and wailing that have been, like, literally years late.”

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