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Top Senate Democrats are demanding to know why the Trump administration has not yet spent funds that Congress allocated earlier this year to ramp up the nation’s coronavirus testing and contact tracing capacity.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the top Democrat on the Senate health committee, wrote a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar over the weekend inquiring about the status of nearly $14 billion in funding for coronavirus testing they say has yet to go out the door.
The emergency coronavirus stimulus legislation Congress passed in March, titled the CARES Act, included $25 billion to help expand state and local testing efforts. According to Schumer and Murray, the Trump administration has yet to distribute more than $8 billion of that package, in addition to other funds Congress set aside to provide free testing for the uninsured.
The U.S. is finally reporting 500,000 coronavirus tests a day ― a level experts say is needed to properly track and contain the outbreak. But the milestone was only reached in mid-June, months after the coronavirus pandemic began, with over 120,000 deaths and counting. |
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| | President Donald Trump would not directly respond when pressed about his comment at his Saturday rally that he had ordered staff to “slow the testing down” for coronavirus. |
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Millions of essential workers are going without paid sick leave in this pandemic. In fact, the paid sick leave law that Congress passed in March to deal with coronavirus leaves out 4 in 10 workers: a total of 69.4 million Americans, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation released last week. That includes an astonishing 17.7 million health care workers, |
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Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more money than President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee for the first time, a sign Biden may be able to limit Trump’s financial advantages as the election heads into its final months. But while the Trump campaign said it still has $265 million on hand, the Biden campaign hasn’t revealed how much it has in the bank. The sum is likely to be much smaller. |
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