<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Senate</a> passed a stopgap bill Thursday, seeking to avoid a partial government shutdown while also sending billions of dollars more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-simply-have-to-step-back-the-realist-approach-to-war-in-ukraine-and-americas-european-allies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to Ukraine</a>.</p>
<p>The legislation passed 72-25 and would keep the government funded through the middle of December. Along with creating a path for the federal government to avoid a shutdown, the Senate also approved more than $12 billion in additional aid for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine</a>, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-set-to-approve-stopgap-bill-to-fund-government-provide-more-ukraine-aid-11664469820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The House will have until Friday night, when the current fiscal year ends, to send the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk.</p>
<p>“This legislation avoids a very bad thing—shutting down the government—and does a lot of good things: money for the people of Ukraine, funding for communities reeling from natural disasters, aid to families with their heating bills, just to name a few,” Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on the floor of the Senate.</p>
<p>If the bill passes the House and gets Biden’s signature, Ukraine will receive $3 billion for training and equipment and for salaries and stipends for its soldiers. Another $4.5 billion will go to support the Ukrainian government’s budget. The U.S. has already committed upwards of $40 billion to Ukraine since the end of January, more than every country in the world combined, <a href="https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to figures from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.</p>
<p>“Assisting Ukraine is not some feel-good, symbolic gesture,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href="https://apnews.com/article/senate-passes-shutdown-bill-d4c21a9bd5872990466c0f1bc188c93e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “It’s literally an investment in our own national security and that of our allies.”</p>
<p>Notably missing from the Senate’s legislation was Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) energy project deal. Manchin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-deal-manchins-permitting-reform-side-deal-cut-out-of-government-funding-bill-at-the-last-minute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> struck the deal with Democratic leadership to include an overhaul of the U.S. energy permitting system in a continuing budget resolution — to avoid a looming government shutdown — in exchange for his vote on the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation-reduction-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inflation Reduction Act</a>,” the Democrats’ $740 billion tax and spending plan. But Manchin’s deal was on thin ice from the start due to bipartisan opposition.</p>
<p>“It is unfortunate that members of the United States Senate are allowing politics to put the energy security of our nation at risk,” Manchin said in a statement on Twitter Tuesday. “The last several months, we have seen firsthand the destruction that is possible as Vladimir Putin continues to weaponize energy. A failed vote on something as critical as comprehensive permitting reform only serves to embolden leaders like Putin who wish to see America fail.”</p>
<p><em>John Rigolizzo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-deal-manchins-permitting-reform-side-deal-cut-out-of-government-funding-bill-at-the-last-minute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contributed</a> to this report.</em></p>

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