by Jordana Choucair | Mar 23, 2022 | D.C. News
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer said he is working with Republicans to try to find a way to pay for new COVID-19 relief funding. Congressional leaders initially agreed to include roughly $15 billion in the government funding bill for new funding for vaccines,...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 22, 2022 | D.C. News
The White House again urged Congress to allocate $22.5 billion in supplemental COVID-19 aid without offsets. According to the administration, it has about $300 billion in unspent COVID-19 funding, of which $240 billion is fully and publicly allocated, including $105...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 21, 2022 | D.C. News
Confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will kick off later today. Jackson is a former federal public defender who has sat on lower U.S. courts for nearly a decade. Early in her career, she also served as a law clerk to retiring...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 17, 2022 | D.C. News
White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients will step down in April and be replaced by Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. President Joe Biden said Jha, who has expertise in pandemic preparedness and response,...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 16, 2022 | D.C. News
White House officials warned Tuesday that cutbacks in the U.S. pandemic response could happen as early as next week if Congress doesn’t pass new emergency COVID-19 funding. According to the officials, without the funding the federal government will delay buying...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 16, 2022 | D.C. News
A Senate committee voted 20-2 to advance a bipartisan pandemic preparedness bill that seeks to apply COVID-19 lessons to future health threats. The bill includes measures to strengthen the medical supply chain, bolster disease surveillance, and require that the Senate...
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