Becerra: Up To HHS To Decide How Leftover COVID-19 Test Funds Spent

By Kelly Lienhard / May 14, 2021 at 6:00 PM
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra recently pushed back against a Republican lawmaker’s assertion that a portion of HHS’ COVID-19 testing funds will need to be reappropriated for new uses, since the agency has yet to use up all of the money for testing efforts. Becerra argued that the United States still needs to invest in aggressive testing strategies as COVID-19 mutations continue to spread, and he made it clear that HHS, not Congress, will decide how to best use the money...


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