Federal COVID aid may be coming to an end
The Biden administration asked
The first bill was pulled from a much larger government funding package after several
The second bipartisan measure stalled after Senate Minority Leader
As the stalemate has dragged on, infections throughout the country have steadily increased and Americans traveling for summer vacations will likely exacerbate case counts and hospitalizations.
The seven-day average of cases was around 48, 000 in early March when Biden asked lawmakers to provide more funding, but it has increased to more than 109, 000, according to the
Hospitalizations averaged 3, 700 a day in early March before dropping to a low of 1, 200 in April. But those numbers have picked back up to 4, 400, according to the
If
While he supports providing more resources, Blunt said, the Biden administration erred when it asked
That Trump-era public health declaration from the
The Biden administration tried to end the program in late May, but a lawsuit from several Republican states has kept the program in place.
"This is a self-inflicted problem that the administration created, and they're gonna have to figure out a way around it," Blunt said. "One way around it would have been not to appeal the judge's decision, but they missed that one."
When asked what could get negotiators in a room again, De-Lauro said: "I would think the moral imperative since we're running out of product would be good enough, but it doesn't appear to be."
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