US President Joe Biden signed into law on Thursday a federal services budget bill totaling $1.7 trillion, including $45 for Ukraine.
The Democrat, who is on vacation in the US Virgin Islands, tweeted a photo in which he appears signing the text, which intends to finance the operation of the US federal state (law enforcement, diplomacy, armed forces or economic policy) until September of 2023.
“A crucial help for Ukraine”
“(The law) will invest in medical research, security, medical care for veterans,” aid after natural disasters or programs against violence against women, he said. It also brings “crucial help to Ukraine,” Joe Biden added.
The budget law also includes an amendment to a law dating from the 19th century intended to mention that the US vice president cannot directly intervene in the certification of electoral results.
Donald Trump had used the ambiguities of the old text to suggest that Mike Pence, his vice president, could have stopped Joe Biden from coming to power after a victory that the outgoing Republican did not want to acknowledge: one of the elements that led to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Source: BFM TV
