California ? A bill promising $40 million in federal aid for a citrus industry recovering from this winter’s deep freeze is likely to collapse because it’s attached to an Iraq supplemental funding bill that the president is expected to veto.

The Senate Appropriations Committee this week approved money for citrus growers who reported $800 million in losses as a result of several days of subfreezing temperatures in January.

But President Bush on Friday threatened again to veto the bill because it is part of a $122 billion bill that also would set a nonbinding goal to remove combat troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008.

Citrus farmers and politicians said they still hope for the $40 million in federal disaster aid.

The disaster assistance section of the Senate bill asks for $100 million to go to farmworkers and small businesses in affected regions, and for $95 million to help dairy farmers whose milk production dipped during a 2006 heat wave.