A few hours before the deadline, the transitional budget was approved late Saturday evening. It does not include aid to Ukraine.
The Republican-dominated House of Representatives voted (335 to 91) in the early afternoon, Washington time, on the transitional legislation needed to operate government institutions and pay employees, including the law. Enforcement officers. It is for 45 days. Later, the Senate also approved the law (88-9), MTI announced.
The quick decision was made necessary because the fiscal year ended on September 30, but the federal government does not yet have a final budget for the next 12 months. One of the main demands of the Republicans appears in the transitional budget, namely not to include additional support for Ukraine. The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on it in a separate law in the near future.
At the same time, the budget included $16 billion to support the Federal Disaster Management Fund, which was requested by the president.
Joe Biden responded to the passage of the interim budget by saying that it is
Good news for the American people.
At the same time, the President also emphasized that the United States cannot under any circumstances allow support for Ukraine to stop.
Many members of the conservative wing of Republicans voted no because the amount allocated to strengthen the Border Patrol was excluded from the legislation, and it also does not include cuts in government spending. They claimed that the national debt, which had risen to more than $33 billion, would justify thrift on the part of the government in Washington. Hakeem JeffriesThe Democratic leader in the House of Representatives commented on the passage of the law by saying that Americans deserve better.
The vote was postponed at the last minute due to a break Jamal Bowman A Democratic representative activated the fire alarm system in the representative’s office building. The building had to be evacuated. The politician later apologized, claiming he did not do it intentionally, but an investigation was opened into the matter, and Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives, urged punishment and an ethics investigation.
