"It is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now, we have a newly elected president, and we are going to wait and take the new commander in chief’s direction on all that, so I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now," U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said.
That could be a creative solution. Order troops to deploy and then order them immediately back.
“Oh, no, there’s not enough time to ship everything back. I guess you’ll have to leave your equipment behind.”
That one is not even really about timing; it’s simply cheaper to just leave the equipment there.