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"Far better to prepare today than play a frantic game of catch-up tomorrow when it's too late." | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Alice Miranda Ollstein 03/08/2022 12:53 PM EST * * * * Link Copied * * * * Congress is planning to give the Biden administration $15.6 billion to continue the fight against Covid-19, less than half of what federal agencies originally said would be needed. Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers say the 2022 spending bill they aim to pass this week to avoid a government shutdown includes $10.6 billion for domestic efforts such as testing, therapeutics and vaccinations, and $5 billion for global pandemic efforts. “We cannot let it be said that America, after the third or fourth variant hits our shores, is unprepared, does not have adequate testing, therapeutics, vaccines,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a floor speech Tuesday morning urging his colleagues to approve the $15 billion in funding. “Both sides of the aisle have come to realize that new Covid funding today is about insurance. Far better to prepare today than play a frantic game of catch-up tomorrow when it’s too late.” Just last week, the White House had argued that they needed at least $22.5 billion just for their immediate needs, already a reduced number from the more than $30 billion they originally requested. The Office of Management and Budget did not respond to a request for comment. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the top Republican appropriator for health funding, told reporters Monday night that the Biden administration had recently communicated the even lower number to lawmakers, noting that because of the opposition to more spending on Covid from his own side of the aisle: “Maybe they think it’s all the traffic would bear right now.” Still, Blunt stressed, the $15.6 billion is only enough to keep Covid operations funded for the short term, and the administration is likely going to have to come back and ask for more. “They’ve never pretended that they thought this money would last for very long,” Blunt said of the White House’s Covid request. Many lawmakers worry, however, that those future tranches of funding will be even harder to pass through Congress without the vehicle of a massive government funding bill that includes emergency military aid to Ukraine. “We’ll have to find some other bills to tack it onto. It’s disappointing,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told POLITICO. “It’s just hard to get bipartisan agreement to do more on Covid. So we’ll take what we can get now and try to get more later.” Several Republicans have made it clear they oppose any new spending on a pandemic they have recently voted to declare a thing of the past, and even some Democrats previously expressed anxiety that the fight over the Covid funding would derail delicate negotiations over funding the rest of the government. But some have been mollified by the Biden administration’s reduced request. “Now they have a more realistic package so I have no problem putting it together as an emergency supplemental along with the Ukraine emergency,” top Democratic appropriator Patrick Leahy of Vermont told reporters. “It’s quite a bit different than what they originally presented.” “Have people died in the United States because of Covid? Yes,” Leahy added. “Are children still dying of Covid in the United States? Yes. Should children be able to go back to school? Yes. Are hospitals having enormous burnout because of the brave people who are taking care of Covid? Yes. Is there a need? Yes.” MOST READ 1. ‘SURPRISE MOVE': U.S. STUNNED BY POLAND’S FIGHTER JET OFFER 2. ‘PUTIN IS ANGRY’: U.S. INTEL HEADS WARN RUSSIA COULD ‘DOUBLE DOWN’ IN UKRAINE 3. DEAL WITH MANCHIN WOULD RESHAPE DEMS’ FIGHT TO KEEP MAJORITY 4. DAVOS FREEZES OUT PUTIN AND RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS 5. 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