The upper house of the US Congress – the Senate has approved a bill to extend the financial security of the federal government without allocating money to Israel and Ukraine. This is reported by CNN.
CNN has emphasised that the US Senate has approved the bill that came from the House of Representatives on the continuation of financial support for the federal government. The material notes that this document, which was proposed by the Republicans, does not contain clauses suggesting the allocation of money for Israel and Ukraine.
A day earlier the House of Representatives approved the bill. For the proposed document voted 336 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including 127 members of the Republican Party and 209 of the Democratic Party. The adoption was opposed by 95 US lawmakers.
“The Senate passed <…> the bill to keep the government running,” CNN said in a report.
The bill will now head directly to the desk of US President Joe Biden for his signature.
We will remind, earlier CNN source said that Joe Biden is ready to sign the bill on the financing of the federal government without mentioning Ukraine and Israel in it. In addition, columnist Emily Brooks in an article for The Hill online magazine mentioned that on 11 November, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, presented a bill that does not provide for financial assistance to Ukraine. If the proposed document is not agreed by 17 November, the work of the federal government will be suspended.