Senate passes roughly $1.5 trillion spending package to avert shutdown, extend $14 billion in Ukraine aid
For all its significance, the new Ukrainian aid still amounted to only one small component of the broader spending package Democrats and Republicans approved on Thursday. The agreement, known in congressional parlance as an omnibus, sets federal spending levels for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year, which concludes at the end of September.
With it, lawmakers agreed to spend more on the Defense Department, with funding levels slated to rise to $742 billion under the soon-to-be enacted law. That includes new money to finance a planned pay increase for U.S. troops. Republicans demanded the budget boost at the Pentagon in marathon talks with Democrats, who had fought for long-sought cuts — but conceded the increases at DOD anyway to achieve their domestic priorities. It prompted Sen. Richard C.
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