White House Cuts Covid Funding Request to $15B: Senator Blunt

The White House has lowered its initial emergency funding request for Covid-19 response to $15 billion from $22.5 billion it sought previously, Republican Senator Roy Blunt says.

• The Covid funding was sought as part of a supplemental request that also includes emergency spending related to the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
  • $10 billion of the revised Covid funding request would be for the Health and Human Services Department, $5 billion for USAID’s global efforts: Blunt
• Blunt also says it’s possible that text for the estimated $1.5 trillion spending package to keep the federal government funded for the current fiscal ...