Lawmakers have reached a bipartisan deal to offer $10 billion in additional funding. The number is less than half of what the originally requested, but some were prepared to offer nothing as they claimed previous Covid funding had been squandered or still had yet to be spent. While past Covid-19 relief bills, such as the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, have been saddled with funding for struggling families and businesses, the new deal would be narrowly tailored to public health efforts to fight the virus.
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