{"id":39642,"date":"2021-09-07T14:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39642"},"modified":"2021-09-07T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:44:13","slug":"president-under-pressure-to-rachet-up-vaccine-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39642","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT UNDER PRESSURE TO RACHET UP VACCINE AID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are pushing for billions in federal funding to boost global COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in Democrats&#8217; coming $3.5 trillion package, arguing that the Biden administration needs to do more to fight the pandemic worldwide and prevent dangerous new variants from forming.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 116 Democratic lawmakers, including more than half of the House Democratic Caucus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ktvfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlhddddd_smrbmmvrvtbkvbjmmkrv.html?a=&amp;b=42097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ktvfwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlhddddd_smrbmmvrvtbkvbjmmkrv.html?a%3D%26b%3D42097&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631142361439000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHoHQkmT4-Ilmlv4zR2Pj74VXjBHw\">wrote to<\/a>\u00a0congressional leaders and President Biden last month, calling on them to back $34 billion to increase global manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines and to help distribute the vaccines around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The push comes as health experts increasingly call on the administration to do more to vaccinate the world, as many countries have still only vaccinated a small percentage of their population, providing fertile ground for new variants to develop that could threaten everyone, including Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But backers of the push in Congress say they have yet to receive firm commitments on the issue from either congressional leadership or the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one\u2019s made any commitments to me about it,\u201d said Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.), one of the leaders of the letter, saying he had spoken to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and \u201ceverybody I\u2019ve spoken to understands the need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are pushing for billions in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39643,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642\/revisions\/39643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}