The Senate on Thursday voted 72-25 to pass a short-term funding measure, sending the bill to the House ahead of Friday’s deadline to avert a government shutdown.
The bill, also known as a Continuing Resolution, includes approximately $12 billion in assistance to Ukraine — including, notably, $35 million “to prepare for and respond to potential nuclear and radiological incidents in Ukraine,” according to a fact sheet released by lawmakers — as well as $20 million in emergency funding to address the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., $2.
“Assisting Ukraine is not some feel-good, symbolic gesture,” McConnell said. “It’s literally an investment in our own national security and that of our allies.” The bill advanced Tuesday in a procedural vote, following the removal of a controversial energy permitting reform provision backed by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.
After the permitting reform provision was removed, Tuesday’s widely bipartisan 72-23 procedural vote signaled that the CR would easily sail through the chamber on Thursday.
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