USA: Joe Biden signs budget package without aid to Ukraine. But no budget freeze in the USA: President Joe Biden has signed the budget package negotiated in Congress, thus averting a standstill in government business.

Theoretically, the deadline for a shutdown had already passed. The now passed 1.2 trillion US dollar (around 1.1 trillion euros) budget package finances a large part of the US government's business. But it does not include new financial aid from the USA for Ukraine. A corresponding legislative package is currently stuck in the House of Representatives.