The US Senate votes on the budget, avoiding the paralysis of public services. If passed, the bill debated this week would extend the US budget until the end of the fiscal year, September 30.
The text prohibits any direct funding from the United States to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. The bill also contains hundreds of millions of dollars for Taiwan, but does not release any funding for Ukraine, with the envelope for kyiv being the subject of separate negotiations. A few minutes after the vote, elected official Marjorie Taylor Greene declared that she had filed a motion to oust the head of the institution, Republican Mike Johnson.