US President Joe Biden has signed a brief spending invoice into regulation, avoiding a federal authorities shutdown till mid-December. The stopgap funding invoice, nevertheless, is essentially centered on holding the movement of army and different assist to Kiev uninterrupted.

The Home handed the invoice 230-201 on Friday in a largely party-line vote, barring 10 Republicans who joined Democrats in backing the laws. Biden signed the invoice forward of a midnight deadline, simply barely averting a shutdown as a consequence of a scarcity of funding. Whereas the short-term spending bundle will present funding till December 16, the Home and Senate might be compelled to give you a brand new invoice to cowl prices for the following yr after getting back from break following the midterm elections in November.

The invoice not solely prevents a shutdown, however authorizes one more mammoth money injection to Ukraine’s army and economic system. It might put aside $4.5 billion for the Ukrainian authorities, $3 billion for weapons and army gear, and extra funding to replenish US weapons already despatched to Ukraine, amongst different issues. As of earlier this week, the White Home had authorized practically $17 billion in direct weapon provides to Kiev since January.

The Ukraine provisions additionally comprise language concerning “potential nuclear and radiological incidents” within the nation, authorizing $35 million for so-called “nuclear non-proliferation” efforts, aiming to safe and stop the “illicit smuggling” of nuclear and radiological supplies.