The Senate has a bipartisan compromise deal to give President Barack
Obama more than half the money he's asked for to fight the Zika virus,
it was announced Thursday.
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a Republican, and
Washington's Patty Murray, a Democrat, brokered the deal that would
allocate $1.1 billion in emergency funding to help states prepare for
Zika's arrival when mosquito season starts and to fund research into the
virus and its effects.
The compromise will come in the form of an amendment to a spending bill up for a vote next week.
Two other amendments are also on offer: one that
would give Obama his full $1.9 billion request, and one that would
offer $1.1 billion, but not as emergency funding.
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Source: NBC News
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