Bipartisan US Senate appropriators urge Trump administration to spend vaccine funds

Bipartisan US Senate appropriators urge Trump administration to spend vaccine funds

A gloved health care professional applies a patch or adhesive bandage after vaccination or drug injection. (Getty Images)WASHINGTON — The State Department must spend the $600 million Congress approved for an international vaccine program, according to a letter sent Monday by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. The six senior members of the Appropriations Committee, three Republicans and three Democrats, called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio …

Bipartisan senators urge Trump team to spend approved vaccine alliance funds

A bipartisan group of senior senators is pressuring the Trump administration to spend $600 million Congress approved for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, warning that the funds are critical to preventing disease outbreaks globally and protecting American public health. Six members of the Senate Appropriations Committee — including Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell — sent the letter Monday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging him to fulfill the …