US Senate passes $1.7 trillion bill to fund government, Ukraine aid

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, speaks with Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the House Appropriations Committee chair, as they await Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Capitol in Washington/Photo: AP

WASHINGTON: The Senate passed a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill Thursday that finances federal agencies through September and provides another large round of aid to Ukraine one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s dramatic address to a joint meeting of Congress.