Mon Aug 28, 2023 – 4:53 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – President Joe Biden has announced he is asking Congress to fund the development of a new COVID-19 vaccine to account for variants of the coronavirus that have spread since the rollout of the first batch of controversial shots under his predecessor Donald Trump.
Fox News reported that, in response to a question about responding to new variants by reporters while vacationing in Lake Tahoe, Biden announced Friday that he “signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that works.”
“Tentatively it is recommended that it will likely be recommended [that] everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not,” the president added.
The official request has not been publicly released or formally submitted to Congress yet, although the Associated Press reported that pharmaceutical companies are already working on updated vaccines to submit to the U.S. Food & Drug Association (FDA) for review.
Any funding request submitted before 2025 will have to be approved by a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which last year rejected the administration’s request of
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