The National Desk: $1.5T Spending Bill Passes Senate after Dems Drop COVID Relief Funding

The Senate has passed a massive $1.5 trillion federal spending bill with more than $13 billion allocated for emergency aid in Ukraine, but a new round of COVID relief funding did not make the cut.

The nearly $16 billion in funding — which would have supported ramping up vaccine supplies, treatments and testing — was scrapped from the government spending bill last minute Wednesday after both parties pushed back over how it would be funded.

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@The National Desk

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