Biden Signs Spending Bill With $13.6 Billion in Ukraine Aid
March 15, 2022
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as posted by the channelDeclaring "our democracy can deliver," President Joe Biden signed a $1.5 trillion bill Tuesday funding the U.S. government for the year and also providing Ukraine with $13.6 billion in additional military and humanitarian aid.
In remarks before signing the spending bill, Biden said the U.S. is already providing billions of dollars of military and security assistance directly to the Ukrainian forces.
But he said with the new funding, the U.S. "is moving urgently to further augment the support to the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their country."
Roughly half the $13.6 billion would arm Ukraine and cover the Pentagon's costs for sending U.S. troops to other Eastern European nations that might see the war spill past their borders.
Much of the rest is for humanitarian and economic assistance, strengthening regional allies' defenses and protecting their energy supplies and cybersecurity needs.
Biden said the aid will allow the White House to "quickly ramp up our response and help alleviate the suffering of Putin's war is causing the Ukrainian people in the region."
The $1.5 trillion government spending bill includes a nearly 7% increase for domestic initiatives, with beefed-up spending for schools, housing, child care, renewable energy, biomedical research, law enforcement grants to communities and feeding programs.
But the bill slashed billions of dollars of COVID-19 aid that the White House says is urgently needed.
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