While USAID can’t find the funds to pay for vaccine efforts around the world, Biden authorized $778 billion in new military spending.
published Monday by the website, a pair of unnamed sources at USAID — the main goverment agency in charge of distributing coronavirus vaccine doses to COVAX, the global vaccine equity program — are concerned that efforts could stall in the coming spring should the administration fail to find new funding sources.The agency, which works with officials in the State Department, has over the past year largely relied on more than $1.
Without additional funding, the officials said that USAID will fall behind in its commitments to help the Biden administration distribute hundreds of millions of U.S.-made doses to low- and middle-income countries by the middle of 2022. At the administration’s first Covid-19 summit with foreign representatives in September, U.S. officials noted it would take at least $7 billion in 2022 to ensure shots are administered across the globe.
Monday that in 2021, Biden “delivered 8% of the funding he campaigned on for physical and human infrastructure, and 105% of the amount he ran on for the Pentagon.” In 2021, Biden delivered 8% of the funding he campaigned on for physical & human infrastructure, and 105% of the amount he ran on for the Pentagon