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ماسک فیلتر دار, Democrats spar with the White House over the amount of funding to be allocated for the response; Mike Emanuel reports from Capitol Hill. As the coronavirus has swept around the world, sickening and killing thousands, the U.S. government's response to the crisis has become gripped by political infighting between President Trump and Democrats. One of the highest-profile confrontations has been the fight over funding to combat the outbreak. Trump requested $2.5 billion in funding from Congress for the coronavirus response, an amount that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said was too little as he panned the Trump administration's preparedness for a disease federal officials say may cause severe disruption to everyday life in the U.S.
ماسک فیلتر دار - SEN. HAWLEY TO INTRODUCE CORONAVIRUS BILL AIMED AT SECURING MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN With no plan to deal with the potential public and global health crisis related to the novel coronavirus, the Trump administration made an emergency supplemental appropriations request on Monday, Schumer said in a statement Wednesday. It was too little and too late — only $1.25 billion in new funding. For context, Congress appropriated more than $6B for the Pandemic Flu in 2006 and more than $7B for H1N1 flu in 2009.
ماسک فیلتر دار, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also knocked the president's funding request, calling it completely inadequate and criticizing the president for previous moves to cut funding to public health programs. She called the response anemic. For almost two years, the Trump Administration has left critical positions in charge of managing pandemics at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security vacant. His most recent budget called for slashing funding for the Centers for Disease Control, which is on the frontlines of this emergency, Pelosi said. Weeks after the Trump Budget called for slashing the CDC budget during this coronavirus epidemic, this undersized funding request shows an ongoing failure to understand urgent public health needs.
ماسک فیلتر دار - Congressional Republicans and Democrats have both proposed funding packages larger than what the White House requested. Trump has said he will take whatever lawmakers give him, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar changed his language during a House committee hearing Wednesday to say that the administration needs at least the $2.5 billion it asked for. IS CORONAVIRUS A PANDEMIC OR AN EPIDEMIC? In his Wednesday night press conference on the coronavirus threat, Trump criticized the Democratic leaders for their tone on funding while fitting in a couple of insults.
ماسک فیلتر دار - I think she's incompetent and I think she's not thinking about the country, Trump said of Pelosi. But we have to work together, Trump continued. Instead, she wants to do the same thing with cryin' Chuck Schumer. He goes out and he says the president only asked for $2.5 billion, he should have $8.5 billion. This is the first time I've ever been told that we should take more. Usually, it's we have to take less. Seemingly in response to Trump's Wednesday comments, Pelosi and Schumer released a joint statement on Congress' plans for coronavirus funding Thursday morning which appeared to admonish the president without naming him.