White House $46 billion emergency request balloons to $242 billion in Senate coronavirus stimulus talks
By Alexander Bolton - 03/22/20 01:53 PM EDT
A $46 billion emergency supplemental funding proposal the White House budget office submitted to Congress last week to battle the coronavirus outbreak has ballooned to $242 billion in the Senate amid frenzied negotiations.
A summary of the supplemental spending legislation provided to stakeholders by the Senate Appropriations Committee says it would provide $75 billion for hospitals, $20 billion for veterans’ health care, $11 billion for vaccines, therapies and diagnostics and $4.5 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A Senate GOP aide confirmed the document's accuracy.
More than 75 percent of the $242 package — approximately $186 billion — will go to state and local governments, fulfilling a central Democratic demand to bail out cash-strapped states such as New York.
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