Covid-19 as a po­lit­i­cal foot­ball: Gov­ern­ment fund­ing for more vac­cine, treat­ment sup­plies stalls

House Speak­er Nan­cy Pelosi late Wednes­day had to pull out $15.6 bil­lion in coro­n­avirus re­lief funds from a mas­sive tril­lion-dol­lar spend­ing bill to avert a gov­ern­ment shut­down as her col­leagues re­volt­ed against pay­ing for that aid with their home states’ stock­piles of al­ready-promised pan­dem­ic funds.

While the spend­ing bill and bil­lions in Ukraine aid cleared the House last night in a short-term ex­ten­sion that will like­ly pass in full ear­ly next week, what hap­pens next for the Covid-19 funds re­mains un­clear.

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