Negotiators have agreed to include more than $12 billion in additional U.S. aid to Ukraine in a bill Congress is set to consider this week.
The funding package, which Congress is set to consider this week, will also provide disaster assistance, including forafter its main facility malfunctioned in late August, leaving many stranded without clean water.
Also in the package is money to help households afford winter heating and funding to assist Afghans in resettling in the U.S. And it will reauthorize user fees that the Food and Drug Administration relies on to fund some of the agency’s most critical safety programs, such as product safety reviews. The text of the bill could be released as soon as Monday ahead of a procedural vote in the Senate on Tuesday evening. The details were provided by a person who was not authorized to discuss the legislation publicly and was granted anonymity.Both chambers of Congress must approve legislation by the end of Friday, which is the end of the fiscal year, to prevent a partial government shutdown.
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