Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that Democrats should be willing to "reprogram" some unspent money from their previous pandemic relief bill to get more money to fight the coronavirus.
On CBS's "Face the Nation," McConnell was asked to comment on remarks by President Biden's chief health adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, on ABC's "This Week" that Congress needs to appropriate more funds for pandemic work. A partisan dispute kept such funding out of the recent omnibus spending bill.
McConnell said Democrats passed a $2 trillion relief bill last year, "allegedly for Covid . . . on an entirely partisan basis," and "much of that money" has not been spent. He said he is willing to "listen to the evidence" of the need for more money, but said Democrats need to use some of the unspent funds for it.
The Democrats' American Rescue Plan Act, passed about a year ago, gives local communities until 2026 to spend their allocations from it.
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