PUBLISHED 4:11 PM ET Apr. 07, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:11 PM EDT Apr. 07, 2021
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WASHINGTON, D.C. In 2017, New York Republican Tom Reed and New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer helped start the House Problem Solvers Caucus, a bipartisan group of Congress members with a mantra of putting politics aside and finding common sense solutions.
Four years later, the group has grown to 58 members, evenly split between the two parties, and Reed and Gottheimer had been its only two chairs. That changed Wednesday, as the caucus announced on Twitter the election of Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-PA, as the GOP chair. Tom Reed will remain an active member of PSC & be part of a multi-month transition, helping ensure the Caucus continues its mission of bipartisan governing, the tweet continued.
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Bipartisan House Group Pushes For $160 Billion In Immediate Vaccine Funding
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on Congress to immediately approve federal funds to ramp up distribution and administration of vaccines, without waiting for negotiations on a broader coronavirus relief package to finish.
On Thursday, the 56-member Problem Solvers Caucus which is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans endorsed the $160 billion package, which would devote an immediate additional $50 billion to testing and $20 billion to a national vaccine program in partnership with states, tribes and territories.
The plan would also provide another $30 billion for disaster relief, $5 billion in additional personal protective equipment for first responders, doctors and dentists and $15 billion to restock the strategic national stockpile. An additional $5 billion would go toward the Defense Production Act, which gives the president the authority to speed up domestic production of