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President Barack Obama this week asked Congress for another $2 billion in supplemental funds to fight the novel H1N1 influenza epidemic, on top of $2 billion requested a month ago, and also proposed to tap federal economic stimulus funds for up to another $3.1 billion for the same purpose.
House and Senate conferees are working to reconcile supplemental appropriations bills that provide $2.05 billion in the House version and $1.5 billion in the Senate version for the H1N1 flu fight. The administration, in a Jun 2 letter, asked Congress to pass the House version and add another $2 billion to it.
In addition, Obama proposed to use up to 1% of unspent stimulus funds to battle the flu if needed. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that that would amount to about $3.1 billion out of the $311 billion in discretionary stimulus funds.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/jun0509funding.html
President Barack Obama this week asked Congress for another $2 billion in supplemental funds to fight the novel H1N1 influenza epidemic, on top of $2 billion requested a month ago, and also proposed to tap federal economic stimulus funds for up to another $3.1 billion for the same purpose.
House and Senate conferees are working to reconcile supplemental appropriations bills that provide $2.05 billion in the House version and $1.5 billion in the Senate version for the H1N1 flu fight. The administration, in a Jun 2 letter, asked Congress to pass the House version and add another $2 billion to it.
In addition, Obama proposed to use up to 1% of unspent stimulus funds to battle the flu if needed. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that that would amount to about $3.1 billion out of the $311 billion in discretionary stimulus funds.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/jun0509funding.html