A $13.6 billion emergency package of military and humanitarian aid for besieged Ukraine and its European allies won final congressional approval, hitching a ride on a government-wide spending bill loaded with political prizes for both parties.
but they’ve rallied behind sending aid to Ukraine, whose stubborn resilience against brutal force has been inspirational for many voters.
Republicans strongly backed that spending. But they criticized Biden for moving too timidly, such as in theover how that nation could give MiG fighter jets to Ukraine that its pilots know how to fly. The $1.5 trillion bill carrying that aid gave Democrats a near 7% increase for domestic initiatives, which constituted a bit less than half the package. That translated to beefed-up spending for schools, housing, child care, renewable energy, biomedical research, law enforcement grants to communities and feeding programs.
Besides those policy victories, many lawmakers of both parties had one incentive to back the spending package that they have not enjoyed since 2010. Democratic leaders restored the old practice of earmarks, hometown projects for lawmakers that Congress dropped in 2011 because voters viewed it as a sleazy misspending of taxpayers’ money.
Months of talks produced the compromise spending pact this week. With the latest temporary spending measure expiring Friday night, Biden’s signature of the $1.5 trillion bill would avert a weekend federal shutdown, which was never going to happen because neither party had reason to spark such a battle.
With that election-year backdrop, Democrats saw the $1.5 trillion package as their chance to claim wins.
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