Biden to visit Nato and EU in Brussels as pressure over Ukraine increases – as it happened
by Vivian Ho from US news | The Guardian on (#5X4H6)
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If spending legislation remains stalled in Congress, the US will soon run out of funding for Covid booster shots, new treatments and testing efforts, a Biden administration official told NBC News.
To recap: the White House requested $22.5bn in Covid relief funding. Democrats negotiated the funding down to $15bn, but still had to take it out of the $1.5tn omnibus package in order for it to pass.
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