Communicable diseases do not care about national boundaries
Rep. Rose DeLauro Press
Release
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement after the State Department notified Congress of its intent to release $600 million in lawfully appropriated funding for Gavi, an international organization that supports children in developing nations with vaccine access.
“After continued advocacy from myself and my Democratic
colleagues on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, these funds are
finally being allowed to flow. It is utterly shameful that these resources were
ever blocked in the first place, and children around the world were deprived of
desperately needed vaccines for nearly two years.
“Gavi has helped to vaccinate over 1 billion children
globally over the past 25 years, preventing more than 20 million deaths. The
insertion of Secretary Kennedy’s senseless, selfish, and absurd crusade against
vaccines is putting children in the United States and abroad at great risk. He
must stop putting his own personal, ill-informed opinions above
well-established scientific evidence before even more children get sick.”
How can you trust a Health Secretary who
takes his grandchildren swimming in sewage?
Ranking Member DeLauro raised this issue during an
Appropriations Committee meeting in late
April.
