I’m not sure why Brandon and his people, along with Congressional Democrats, want to keep the doom and gloom from COVID going: more Americans died under Biden’s watch than Trump’s, and infection rates skyrocketed twice, one way higher than while Trump was president, despite knowing way more than in 2020, forcing masking, and all the vaccines, and way more infections than during 2020. You’d think would want to forget about that. But, he doesn’t
White House warns of ‘severe consequences’ as Congress cuts COVID aid
After a prolonged back and forth, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion government spending bill last week but dropped from the final package $22.5 billion in pandemic relief that Democrats wanted to include.
On Tuesday, the same day as President Joe Biden signed the 2,741-page bill into law, his aides warned that the omission could “have severe consequences as we will not be equipped to deal with a future surge.”
The U.S. could soon run out of funding for COVID responses such as booster shots, treatments efforts, and tests if the legislation remains stuck in Congress, officials warned. The warning — which came in the form of a letter to Congressional leadership and a press release — focused on the possibility of future variants as current caseloads have dropped since the record-breaking omicron-fueled numbers from over the winter.
Vaccine “shortages will be even more acute if we need a variant-specific booster vaccine,” the White House noted. Moreover, Biden aides warned, a lack of funding could thwart efforts to develop a “pan-COVID vaccine” to stop a range of variants.
This is all being blamed on Republicans, of course, because that’s politics, forgetting that Democrats can pass just about anything they want in the House, as they have the majority, and same in Senate, as long as every Democrat votes “yes”.
The White House announced other consequences Tuesday including the canceling of plans to purchase additional monoclonal antibody treatments and the expiration of a fund that reimburses doctors caring for uninsured individuals.
That’s just spiteful, because he didn’t get his way. There’s certainly plenty of funds left from all the previous bills.
Republicans have been largely unified in opposing the funds. Sen. Richard Shelby (R- AL) sounded skeptical to Punchbowl News on Monday, saying: “If there’s a need for it and they can show there’s a need, you’d get — I think — overwhelming votes up here. But there’s a doubt there that they need this money, with a lot of us.”
Do we need it? How about getting rid of a lot of the wasteful spending in the bill. Most of the ‘climate change’ garbage could have been cut. If we need it, Congress does know they are able to pass a stand alone bill, right? Without all sorts of stupid stuff and pork?
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