Joe Biden, Congress Leave the Country’s Future COVID-19 Response in Limbo

If the United States’ preparedness for anticipated COVID-19 surges this fall and winter was in question before, it’s even murkier now. President Joe Biden gave Congress the green light Monday to push forward with Ukraine aid “separately” from additional COVID response funding—a decision at least one top Democrat with purview over the nation’s purse string says he regrets. “We need both COVID and Ukraine,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy told Politico. “We’re going to have real problems this fall with COVID and it’s a mistake not to have both together. I really regret that.” Public health officials in the… Read Full Article