“I don't think there's any scenario where one should dismiss $30 billion as not real money,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group.
The amount of funding remaining from six laws passed during the public health emergency is a moving target.When the GOP-controlled House passed a bill in April to raise the debt limit in exchange for cutting various types of spending, the nonpartisanclawing back pandemic funding would save about $30 billion. The bean counters excluded $316 billion in remaining funds that the government is legally obligated to pay out.
A registered nurse fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site in the Staten Island borough of New York, April 8, 2021. Nursing homes continue to struggle to recruit and retain workers while managing rising operating costs, she said, and the millions of dollars Congress approved in COVID-relief payments are critical.
An additional $2.5 billion remained in grants to transit agencies, though the DOT was still processing applications totaling $1.1 billion. Just this week, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District received $4.2 million it’s using to get about 3,000 people a year’s worth of free Wi-Fi from Cox Communications.
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