Is This a Lame Duck Congress or a Marjorie Taylor Green Bill?

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CNN's John Defterios says the White House and lame duck Congress should pass an annual appropriation for Ukraine support. He compares it to a debt limit, which is passed periodically but not every time you need to spend money. The president would be "horrified at that idea," he says of sending month-to-month aid in this case.Defterios: We have two regular systems of crisis built into our legislative executive relations.

Matt Tait is a cybersecurity expert who has worked both in the private sector and for the British government at GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security, and cyber agency. He's also a Lawfare contributor. Like a lot of us, Tait has spent the last several months thinking about Ukraine, and Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes had cybersecurity questions for him. They talked about why the Ukrainian internet is still functioning and why the Russians have been so ineffective in the cyber arena. They also talked about whether U.S. support for Ukraine is threatened with Republicans in control of the House and what the Biden administration is going to do about Section 702, which is scheduled to expire at the end of next year.

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