The Kremlin does not approve the United States took the historic decision on the oil embargo

The US Senate adopted a draft budget for the 2016 fiscal year, which also included a provision repealing operate for 40 years a ban on the sale of crude oil from the United States.

For this decision voted 65 senators, 33 members of the House voted against, writes Tass.

The total budget is $ 1.1 trillion. The position on the abolition of the oil embargo was included in the text in the process of reconciliation between Democrats and Republicans, which made this initiative.

The new fiscal year began in the US October 1, but the state budget has not been approved, federal departments and agencies were funded on the basis of a temporary resolution, the effect of which was extended several times in order to prevent the suspension of the government.

The adopted document stipulates the financing of a number of federal agencies, including the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security. However, this package does not include the Pentagon budget, it was adopted earlier separately.

It is expected that the documents will be signed by Barack Obama on Friday, as the night the head of state and his family leaving for vacation for the Christmas period.

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