'The alternative to funding the fight today is to accept the pandemic extending into the future, with preventable suffering and insecurity for all.'
on Wednesday."If more funding doesn't come, Americans will be without the vaccines, treatments, and tests they will need if we have another surge or variant—or even if we don't."Wednesday that"failing to take action now will have severe consequences for the American people," potentially imperiling ongoing research and preparedness efforts.
"The administration's request is essential," Pelosi said."It's really important because it's about our global responsibilities, yes, but in addition to that, it's about therapies that are early interventions into Covid... Sadly, the Republicans insisted that every penny for Covid be offset. And again, we fought to make sure that they didn't take any money out of the pockets of localities, but they did insist that it come out of the states.
Any attempt to pass coronavirus relief funding in a standalone measure would likely continue running into opposition from the Republican Party, which—as long as the 60-vote legislative filibuster remains—has effective veto power in the evenly divided Senate.led by Mitt Romney of Utah wrote in a letter to the White House that"it is not yet clear why additional funding is needed" to battle the coronavirus pandemic—an indication that they would likely block a new aid measure.
"That money is the minimum needed to fund global vaccination, testing, and emergency relief to stop the spread of Covid-19," Weissman added."The alternative to funding the fight today is to accept the pandemic extending into the future, with preventable suffering and insecurity for all, and to live with the knowledge that, deep in the time of the world’s greatest need, the United States gave up.
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