reaches the point at which it does not have sufficient time to obligate all the funding by the end of the fiscal year, there were only two ways to discontinue obligation of usai, a president-directed recision or a dod directed reprogramming action. either of which would need to be notified to congress. i never heard that either was being pursued. second, i was in communication with the dod security assistance implementing community to try to understand exactly when they would reach the point at which they would be unable to obligate all the funds by the end of the fiscal year. i received a series of updates and in a september 5th update, i and other senior defense leaders were informed that over 100 million could not be obligated by september 30th and third, i was advocating for a meeting of the cabinet-level principles with the president to explain why the assistance should go