# Senate Passes $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill

By Human Events · Published 2022-03-11 · News & Analysis › Politics · https://humanevents.com/news/senate-passes-1-5-trillion-spending-bill

> The Senate on Thursday evening passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill, which will now head to Biden’s desk for signature. The bill passed the Senate in a 68 to 31 vote, Just the News reports. Republican Senators who voted in support of the bill include Sens. Barrasso, Blunt, Moore Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, \[…\]

The Senate on Thursday evening passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill, which will now head to Biden’s desk for signature.

The bill passed the Senate in a 68 to 31 vote, *Just the News* [reports](https://justthenews.com/government/congress/senate-passes-15-trillion-spending-bill-billions-ukraine?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter).

Republican Senators who voted in support of the bill include Sens. Barrasso, Blunt, Moore Capito, Collins, Cornyn, Ernst, Graham, Grassley, Hyde-Smith, McConnell, Moran, Murkowski, Portman, Shelby, Thune, Tuberville, Wicker and Young. Sen. Jim Inhofe did not vote.

As previously reported by *Human Events News*, the House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to pass the spending package - intended to be for the entire 2022 fiscal year - which includes $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine and a 5.6 percent increase in overall defense spending, bringing the total to $782 billion.

The package also increases discretionary domestic spending by 6.7 percent to $730 billion and includes a formal end to the 2011 earmark ban.

Additionally, the package includes the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion.