President Joe Biden on Tuesday is set to sign a bill providing Ukraine with $13.6 billion additional military and humanitarian aid as part of a $1.5 trillion measure funding the U.S. government for the year.
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"We promised the Ukrainian people they would not go at it alone in their fight against Putin," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said upon the bill's passage. The COVID-19 spending was a casualty of negotiations over the larger government bill. The White House had asked for $22.5 billion for vaccines and treatment, but that was trimmed during talks to $15.6 billion and ultimately dropped altogether as rank-and-file Democrats rebelled against proposed cuts in state aid to pay for the new spending.
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