WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is extending the federal government’s 100% reimbursement of COVID-19 emergency response costs to states, tribes and territories through July 1, the White House announced Tuesday.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients informed governors on a conference call that Biden is approving the extension of Federal Emergency Management Agency support to help continue FEMA-backed efforts like vaccination clinics, mass testing sites and surging hospital resources to deal with local case spikes.
“FEMA’s priority throughout the response to COVID-19 has been to coordinate and provide the necessary resources and personnel states, tribes and territories need to adequately respond to the pandemic,” FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said. “Today’s extension of the 100% cost-share through July 1, 2022, builds on our efforts to assist impacted communities across state and federal levels.”
The extension through the first half of the year is a sign that the White House continues to see a need for federal resources in combating COVID-19 even as Biden tries to guide the country to live with the coronavirus while case counts recede.
Recent examples of FEMA funding include $1.2 million given to Ball State University in Indiana last month to cover on-campus testing and $91.8 million to Wisconsin to reimburse for COVID-19 testing costs and surge staffing in treatment centers.
Biden, a Democrat, first signed an order directing FEMA to cover 100% of state emergency costs related to the coronavirus on his second day in office through September 2021. He subsequently extended it to the end of 2021 and again through April 1.
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The only tribe Biden will protect will be the Democrat tribe of Washington Red skin red state skinners and skimmers of budget scalpers who herd up then dress out the hides of the soon to become extinct tribe of bankrupt American taxpayers. He has broken every promise and every treaty he has made with the American people by enriching incoming tribes of illegally landed foreign Drug smuggling fentanyl dealers, human traffickers and Russian military funders who fund his Briden family tribe of money lauderers. Just like his Supreme court nominations, every COVID policy he promoted first had to first pass the hair sniff smell test to prove it protected the party first, not the nation first, protecting the party’s freedom to divide and confuse, while the freedom of liberty minded individual viewed by their media as useful idiots, were seen as just collateral damage in the socialist war upon American greatness.
AND WITH How much colleges COST these damn days, WHY THE HELL DO THEY NEED YET MORE government reimbursement for all those damn tests! IMO THE costs students pay, SHOULD ALREADY bloody well include those medical needs…
Illegal aliens in Texas still pay less in College tuition than legal American citizens from other states
Instead of vaccination sites, FEMA should have sites that “evacuate” all liberals to North Korea permanently!
WITH how the left, seems to RUN FEMA, if anyone would get ’rounded up and kicked out’, I fear it would be us conservatives… OR AT LEAST they’d try!
the free loaders biden is still paying know nothing of high food prices and gas prices.
these folks sicken me by taking handout money from the party of satan .
keep on printing joeseph mengala biden.