WASHINGTON — The President signed the ninety-four-billion-dollar war supplemental into law in a Rose Garden ceremony Friday morning, closing the books on the largest single appropriations package of the post-ceasefire period and enacting a substantial expansion of veterans’ mental health services that had been added by Senate appropriators earlier in the week.

The signing, attended by the Speaker of the House, the Senate majority and minority leaders, the chairmen and ranking members of the four military-related committees, and the secretaries of Defense, State, and Veterans Affairs, took roughly nine minutes from the President’s opening remarks through the public application of pen to the legislation. The ceremony was broadcast live by the major networks and streamed on the White House communications channels.

The supplemental’s headline allocations include forty-one billion dollars for Department of Defense replenishment of munitions stocks and operational tempo costs incurred during the March-April war period, twenty-two billion dollars for Iran-related contingency funding and post-war stabilization, fourteen billion dollars for veterans’ health and mental health programs, eight billion dollars for State Department refugee and reconstruction operations, and nine billion dollars in miscellaneous and Department of Energy-related provisions.

The mental health expansion provision, which was added in the Senate Appropriations Committee markup earlier this week and survived the conference process without modification, will fund the establishment of forty-eight new community-based mental health clinics serving veterans of the recent conflict, an expansion of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ tele-mental-health service capacity by roughly sixty percent, and the hiring of approximately three thousand additional clinical mental health professionals over the next three fiscal years. The provision had been championed by Senator Maggie Hennessey, D-Colo., and Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kans., on a bipartisan basis.

“The men and women who served in the recent conflict will carry what they have seen for the rest of their lives,” the President said in his prepared remarks. “Some of them will carry it well. Some of them will need our help. This legislation makes that help real, and it makes it permanent, and it does so in a way that reflects the seriousness with which this country regards its obligations to those who serve.”

Speaker Mike Johnson, in brief remarks following the President, characterized the supplemental as “the legislative complement to the ceasefire framework,” and said the House had moved the bill on a “compressed but responsible” timeline. Johnson did not directly address the discharge-petition pressure that had been applied to the House leadership earlier in the week on the separate war-powers question, but said the House would “address each piece of the post-war agenda on its own terms.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, in his remarks, emphasized the bipartisan character of the final vote — the Senate had cleared the bill 78-19 — and singled out the mental health provision as “the kind of legislation that makes a difference long after the cameras leave.” Senator Hennessey, in remarks she delivered following Schumer, said the provision reflected lessons learned from previous post-war periods and the recognition that “the cost of treating mental injuries is small, and the cost of failing to treat them is enormous.”

The signing closes a three-week congressional process that had begun with the Senate Appropriations Committee markup on May seventh and proceeded through Senate floor passage May ninth, House Rules Committee consideration May thirteenth, and House floor passage May fourteenth on a 281-148 vote. The conference process between the chambers had been substantially preconfigured, with House Republican leadership accepting the Senate-side additions in exchange for the President’s commitment to consult with House appropriators on the implementation rulemaking for the State Department reconstruction funds.

The Department of Defense had been operating on a series of internal transfers and reprogrammings during the period the supplemental was under consideration, with the Pentagon comptroller’s office having drawn down approximately sixteen billion dollars in available operations and maintenance authority to bridge the gap. A senior defense official, in a background briefing Thursday evening, said the immediate effect of the signing would be the replenishment of those reprogrammed accounts and the issuance of contract awards that had been held in pending status awaiting the supplemental’s enactment.

The veterans’ health expansion will be implemented under regulations the Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to publish in the Federal Register within thirty days, with the first wave of clinic siting decisions to be announced by mid-August. The legislation specifies that fifty percent of new clinical hires must be placed in rural or underserved geographies, a provision Senator Hennessey said was designed to address the longstanding access gap in non-metropolitan veteran populations.

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who voted against the supplemental in the Senate’s May ninth roll call citing the package’s overall size and the structure of the Iran contingency funding, said in a statement issued Friday morning that the veterans’ mental health provision was “the one redeeming feature” of the package and that he would have voted in favor of a stand-alone bill containing that provision.

The President is scheduled to deliver remarks at a Department of Veterans Affairs site visit in Northern Virginia on Monday afternoon, with the visit timed to highlight the implementation of the mental health expansion.