A dispute in the House over how to pay for $15.6 billion in additional funding to help respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Congress to pursue the relief through standalone legislation.
A dispute in the House over how to pay for $15.6 billion in additional funding to help respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Congress to pursue the relief through standalone legislation after it was stripped from the massive $1.5 trillion government spending bill thatBut the prospects of both chambers approving more money to fund the fight against COVID-19 appear to be dim, since the $15.6 billion measure from House Democrats faces steep odds to passage in the evenly-divided Senate.
But as the lower chamber moved toward a vote on the package, the first step to averting a partial government shutdown ahead of a Friday deadline, the dispute over offsets for the $15.6 billion burst into public view, ultimately forcing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove the pandemic money from the legislation.
"Somebody needs to figure out how to do this in a more fair manner," she told reporters Wednesday."Thirty of the 50 states just had some of their COVID relief money that's already been put in a plan put into a claw-back position, so either 50 of the states need to participate here, or we need to figure out another way to do this more fairly."
The standalone COVID funding bill is likely to clear the House, where Democrats can lose up to four votes and still pass legislation. But its fate is less clear in the Senate because Democrats hold a razor-thin majority and it takes 60 votes for legislation to advance.
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