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The House just passed a $858 Billion bill for defense, but no money to continue providing COVID vaccines, treatment, tests, and N95 masks for free, sharing these tools with the world, or developing next generation vaccines that could drastically change the pandemic by preventing most transmission.
@luckytran@med-mastodon.comThe White House has requested more COVID funding 4 times this year, rejected each time. The latest request is for a mere $10 billion. It's foolish to spend $858 Billion on defense, and nothing on public health, when COVID is one of the biggest global security issues of our time.
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I'm puzzled. With his party in control of both House and Senate, why has the President had trouble getting funds for fighting COVID?
@stargazersmith @luckytran I too do not understand
@stargazersmith @luckytran Manchema and the GQP filibuster.
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Oh,, I think so.
@luckytran Biden should just use the defense funding to stop #Covid, becuse Covid is a threat to national security.
#CovidIsANationalSecurityThreat
#CovidIsAirborne
Issuing #HEPA filters and #P100 masks to everyone IS national defense, just like building bomb shelters and issuing gas masks would be.
@luckytran Totally agree. Outrageous! And not even to mention the security risk of climate change.
@luckytran Amazing that R’s actually approved more than was requested by POTUS.
@luckytran Foolish and downright murderous
@luckytran Spend $858 billion on defense, and nothing on public health, is the republican way.