Members of the Republican Party propose to allocate three times less money to fight the COVID-19 pandemic than US President Joe Biden announced. This was reported by Fox News.
A group of ten Republican senators have proposed cutting the budget to fight the pandemic from $ 1.9 billion to $ 600 million. According to them, the proposed amount will include the expenses laid down by the president for the purchase of vaccines and the reopening of schools. In addition, the Republicans are proposing to distribute to the Americans a one-time payment of $ 1,000 instead of 1,400 announced by Biden.
Senator Bill Cassidy told TV that the country's president never responded to their proposal. “If you want unity, if you want cross-party cooperation, you have to start with a group that shows that it is ready to work together to find a joint solution. They didn't do it, ”the politician said.
According to the Johns Hopkins University project, the United States remains the country with the highest number of cases of coronavirus infection in the world: 26,186,815.Since the beginning of the pandemic, 441,000 people have died in the country.
