White House press secretary Jen Psaki addressed the need for more money at her news briefing on Tuesday.
, and that “I think they are going to be proposing a $30 billion supplemental.”
in a series of major bills spanning the Trump and Biden administrations. That’s not counting actions by the Federal Reserve to help keep the economy going. Blunt said senators had asked the administration how other Covid dollars had been spent, “and frankly, in the categories they are asking for money, the other money has all been spent or committed.”Humanitarian groups, along with dozens of Democratic lawmakers, have been pressing the Biden White House and key committee leaders in Congress to provide billions of dollars for global vaccination efforts.
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