Pelosi Kills Billions in COVID-19 Spending Due to Democratic Civil War
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stripped COVID-19 money from Congress’ omnibus government funding bill due to infighting among Democrats.
Congress was expected to include almost $16 billion in funding to continue fighting the coronavirus pandemic that President Joe Biden recently said Americans are ready to move on from, about one-third of which would be to help global relief efforts in other countries. But a sizeable portion of the Democratic caucus revolted over how the funds would be paid for.
1) Pelosi tells Dems they will have to remove COVID aid from omnibus.
“Republicans resisted this deeply needed funding, demanding that every cent requested by the Administration be offset, including through state and local funds scheduled to be released this spring.”— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) March 9, 2022
House leadership planned to pay for some of the new COVID-19 relief funds with leftover money from last year’s American Rescue Plan, according to CNN. The plan was Democrats’ response to Republican objections that states should actually spend all of the relief money they were already given before more funds are disbursed. (Read more from “Pelosi Kills Billions in COVID-19 Spending Due to Democratic Civil War” HERE)
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