Hampered by obstruction from Republican lawmakers who have questioned the need for any new coronavirus funding, Democrats are scrambling to find a path forward for a $16 billion aid package that was yanked from an omnibus spending measure last week.
on Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci — the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — said the U.S. could soon see an increase in coronavirus cases and noted that, without new funding from Congress, “a lot” of programs aimed at fighting the pandemic “are going to stop.”Dr. Ashish Jha, the incoming White House Covid-19 response coordinator,“As much as I wish otherwise,” Jha wrote on Twitter, “the pandemic is not over.”are still dying each day on average from the virus.
The White House has requested more than $20 billion in funding to sustain pandemic response programs, but Republican and Democratic lawmakers last week could only agree to provide $15.6 billion in the omnibus package — and only after accepting the GOP push to take the money from states. Now, Democratic leaders are attempting to move ahead with the coronavirus aid package as a standalone measure, an approach that appears doomed to fail given that
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