spending bill
The Senate has given final congressional approval to a $13.6 billion emergency package of military and humanitarian aid for besieged Ukraine and its European allies.
The bill passed only after top Democrats dropped their plan to include fresh funds to battle COVID-19.
The measure is designed to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal financing federal agencies until fall.
The bill includes proposed fines and tax provisions that could steer more business to unionized companies and make it easier for workers to organize.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The West Virginia senator is at odds with members of his party over a critical piece of President Joe Biden's agenda in Congress.
Voters overall don't seem fazed by the cost, and it's not clear how much, if at all, even hostile Republican voters care about the price tag.
You can learn a lot about how Congress actually works from the budget process. If you can stomach the budget process.
The president has suggested he won't sign the bipartisan bill unless it includes funding for the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The president had threatened a veto just hours earlier.
Some of Trump's favorite people explained to him the bill contains almost no money for his long-promised border wall. He grudgingly signed it anyway.