COVID politics reach funding tipping point: The Note
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to drop $15 billion pandemic funding package asked for by the White House from a spending bill that she says is "deeply needed."
The TAKE with Rick Klein
The politics of COVID moved faster than the trucker convoy, which got to Washington a good week or two after it might have left a mark on the policy conversation -- not to mention the local traffic.
It also moved too fast for congressional Democrats and the White House. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced to drop what she called a "deeply needed" $15 billion pandemic funding package requested by the White House from a major spending bill.
"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," Pelosi told her fellow House Democrats on Wednesday.
