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House passes $1.5T spending plan with Ukraine aid, without COVID-19 relief
The axed funding was meant to bolster vaccine supply, treatments and tests at home and abroad, but rank-and-file Democrats balked at GOP demands.
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The House of Representatives approved a bipartisan $1.5 trillion spending bill was stripped of funds originally earmarked to fight the coronavirus pandemic while sending billions of dollars of aid to Ukraine.
The passage of the measure marked the first time Democrats were able to largely shape a spending package during President Joe Biden’s term, but the White House was incensed that the House majority dropped a $15.6 billion pandemic aid package to save the bill.
The axed funding was meant to bolster vaccine supply, treatments and tests at home and abroad, but rank-and-file Democrats balked at GOP demands that cuts to state aid be used to cover the initiatives Wednesday.
“It is heartbreaking to remove the Covid funding, and we must continue to fight for urgently needed Covid assistance, but unfortunately that will not be included in this bill,” House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi wrote in an afternoon memo to caucus members.