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CONGRESS TO SPEND $15B ON COVID, LESS THAN HALF OF WHAT ADMINISTRATION
ORIGINALLY WANTED

“We cannot let it be said that America, after the third or fourth variant hits
our shores, is unprepared,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said.



“Both sides of the aisle have come to realize that new Covid funding today is
about insurance," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. "Far better to
prepare today than play a frantic game of catch-up tomorrow when it's too late."
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By Alice Miranda Ollstein

03/08/2022 12:53 PM EST

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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.”


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