Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

You'd lose that bet. There was nothing, is nothing, in Biden's language or actions to support your speculation; he's decidedly not a junk science spouting mitigation measure scoffing ass-clown like Trump.

Rand Ball held up voting on the Ukraine Bill, which in turn pushes back voting on the Covid bill.

Statement by President Joe Biden on Funding for COVID-?19 and Ukraine
MAY 09, 2022

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/05/09/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-funding-for-covid-19-and-ukraine/

However let me be clear: as vital as it is to help Ukraine combat Russian aggression, it is equally vital to help Americans combat COVID. Without timely COVID funding, more Americans will die needlessly. We will lose our place in line for America to order new COVID treatments and vaccines for the fall, including next-generation vaccines under development, and be unable to maintain our supply of COVID tests.

In the fall, if we are hit by new variants, it will be too late to get the tools needed for protection – critical treatments that will be available in Europe, but not the United States. In addition, our effort to help lower-income countries get COVID vaccines into arms will stall.

So I call on Congress to pass the Ukrainian Supplemental funding bill immediately, and get it to my desk in the next few days. And then, I urge Congress to move promptly on the COVID funding bill. This virus knows no borders; we must continue to save lives here at home and around the world.