Ukraine To Receive $800M and Congress Gives Itself a 21% Pay Raise in Latest Spending Bill
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a massive spending bill into law that includes $13.6 billion in new aid to Ukraine, saying during a signing ceremony that the new assistance shows the United States is “moving urgently to further augment the support to the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their country.” “Today we’re again showing the American people that as a country we can come together, as Democrats and Republicans and independents, and do big things; that our democracy can deliver … and outperform autocracies, and that there’s nothing we can’t do when we do it together as the United States of America,” Biden told an audience of lawmakers at the White House.
Top econmists state that inflation will soar even higher after Biden signed lawmakers Omnibus spending bill into law this week.