Congress’s Failure
to Fund Zika Response
What makes a person
willingly and
knowingly want to suffer
for at least two more years
and
not only
that
willing to take their
spouse,
children,
grand-children,
family members,
neighbors,
and
friends
down that road with them?
Republican answer to
the ZIKA Fund.
If you are poor,
"DIE QUICKLY!
This past February,
the Obama
administration requested a $1.9 billion appropriation for federal activities to
combat the dangers of the Zika virus,
a mosquito-borne
virus believed to increase the likelihood of microcephaly in infants born to
infected mothers.
(Zika has also been
tied to other negative health outcomes for humans,
but Zika is a recent
enough public health issue that scientific data are still being collected.)
Congress has not
taken action on the president’s request,
and Democratic
legislators and the White House see Republicans playing politics with a public
health crisis in the making.
“That’s a
significant problem, particularly when you consider that there’s no good reason
that Congress hasn’t acted,”
Obama Press
Secretary Josh Earnest said.