Congress’s aid package for Ukraine and its Eastern European allies now stands at $14 billion, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said. McConnell announced the deal on Tuesday, telling reporters that the figure would include loan guarantees to help NATO allies including Poland purchase U.S. aircraft to replace warplanes transferred to Ukraine. “Where we have ended up is $14 billion,” McConnell said. Speaking shortly after McConnell, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), said the bill would include “a little less” than $14 billion and a little more than $12 billion. The spending will be part of a $1.5 trillion government-wide spending bill that lawmakers hope to vote on this week, that will fund the federal government for the full fiscal year and also provide further aid to Ukraine. The figure is higher than the sum initially requested by the Biden administration, $6.5 million, and the $10 billion figure in the …