Covid-19 Response Team To Deliver Update

The White House Covid-19 Response Team is delivering a presser on government Covid-19 guidance. The presser is scheduled to begin shortly and a livestream can be followed here.

• Comes as the as the prospect of another Covid wave increases and the White House struggles to procure additional Covid-19 relief funding .
• The White House requested USD$22.5 billion in the FY22 omnibus but was blocked by Democrat governors concerned with offsets. The GOP is continuing to refuse support for Covid funding under emergency measures.
• Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said: ‘This is really crucial and anyone who tries to block this – God forbid we have a second variant and we don’t have enough of the therapeutics, enough of the testing, enough of the vaccines, is going to regret it.'
• Senator Richard Burr (R-NC): ‘I think we all agree they need money. They need money to make purchases. Whether they’re wise purchases, you don’t know until you get this information and you look at their projections... You know, they gave me numbers, but they didn’t give me the rationale behind it. It’s very, very hard to look at it and say, 'Well, that makes sense.''