Biden signs $1.7T spending bill into law, averts government shutdown

President Joe Biden has signed off on a $1.7 trillion spending invoice that may hold the US authorities funded by means of the subsequent fiscal 12 months  — notably together with one other large bundle for Ukraine’s struggle effort.

Biden, vacationing over the New Year’s vacation on Saint Croix within the US Virgin Islands, tweeted an image of himself signing the invoice into legislation on Thursday.

“It’ll invest in medical research, safety, veteran health care, disaster recovery” and funding for packages combating violence towards ladies, Biden tweeted. It additionally “gets crucial assistance to Ukraine. Looking forward to more in 2023.”

The funding invoice received Republican help within the evenly divided Congress, guaranteeing simple passage — and notching up one other legislative win for Biden as he ends his second 12 months in workplace. 

Even critics have expressed grudging admiration for the Biden administration’s capability to get outcomes because the 80-year-old Democrat closes in on a call over whether or not to hunt one other time period in 2024.

The invoice contains $45 billion in emergency army and financial help for Ukraine, which is battling a full-scale Russian assault.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Washington earlier this month to plead for elevated US help.

The invoice additionally options add-ons, similar to a reform tightening a nineteenth century legislation to clarify that vice presidents wouldn’t have energy to overturn election outcomes. 

That is meant to forestall any repetition of Donald Trump’s chaotic gambit to keep away from conceding defeat to Biden within the 2020 presidential election —  together with by attempting to coerce his vp, Mike Pence, to halt certification of Biden’s win.

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Source: AFP