Top Senate negotiators have said they are close to striking a deal to approve $10 billion in additional COVID relief funding with just a handful of days remaining before Congress heads off for a two-week recess.
The Biden administration has launched covid.gov, a website that provides COVID-19 resources and the latest information.The renewed effort to pass additional funding to address the coronavirus pandemic comes after negotiators were forced to strip $15.6 billion in aid from a government spending package earlier in March over disagreements about how the bill would be paid for.
On the Senate floor, Schumer touted the bipartisan work the Senate has undertaken in recent days to approve the additional funding. Republicans have insisted for months that any additional COVID relief funding would have to come out of unused pandemic relief money that Congress approved back in 2020 and 2021.
Republican senators have said the new aid package would not be offset from these funds, so Democrats are expected to swallow the smaller price tag, though there are already concerns from some members over the lack of funding for international health efforts."I think what the Republicans are doing is, either they don't care, or they don't know. But it is wrong," Pelosi told reporters during a press conference."This is shameful. We have to get the money.
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