Biden signs $1.7 trillion US government spending bill

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 31, 2022 12:04 am

Saint Croix, United States: President Joe Biden on Thursday (Friday in Manila) signed off on a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the US government funded through the next fiscal year -- notably including another big package for Ukraine's war effort.

Biden, vacationing over the New Year's holiday on Saint Croix in the US Virgin Islands, tweeted a picture of himself signing the bill into law.

US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden disembark Air Force One at Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in Christiansted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, on Dec. 27, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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