Thursday 19 May 2022 07:37 PM Senate PASSES bill to send $40billion in aid to Ukraine: 11 Republicans vote ... trends now

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In a largely bipartisan vote the Senate passed a bill Thursday to provide $40 billion more in aid to Ukraine as the war with Russia stretches on into its fourth month. 

The measure brings the total U.S. funding of the conflict to $54 million in two months. 

The bill passed 86-11, where a handful of Republican objectors complained that there were more pressing problems at home to tend to and the funding did not have adequate oversight. 

President Biden is expected to quickly sign the bill, as he and Ukrainian leaders sounded the alarms that the nation would run out of aid by Thursday if Congress did not act.

'I applaud the Congress for sending a clear bipartisan message to the world that the people of the United States stand together with the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their democracy and freedom,' Biden said in a statement on

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