funding. congress has to provide the funding america needs to continue to fight covid-19. we re already seeing the consequences of congressional inaction. the monoclonal antibodies, for example, they ve helped save lives. this isn t partisan. it s medicine. but congress hasn t provided enough money to keep purchasing these monoclonal antibodies. we ve had to cancel planned orders and cut the supply we re sending to the states. without more funding we ll start to run out of them by the end of may, the end of may. we ve also had to scale back our plan to purchase more preventive therapies for americans who are immunocompromised. critical tools to protect the most vulnerable among us. without more funding we risk running out of supply by this fall. the same is true of testing. it took months to ramp up our
officials at the white house tonight. how are they reacting to desantis comments and actions. he s coming straight at and punching at the president. they are responding with data. one white house official sent me a series of data points under scoring how severe the surge is in florida. white house secretary jen psaki said 20% of the hospitalizations in the country are based on florida saying the hospitals are overwhelmed and the white house believes it is doing everything it can to help the people of florida and wishes that ron desantis would join them in that effort. i think this goes to why you ve seen such a significant shift in the tone from white house officials, from the president on down over the course of the last several days in terms of calling out governors like ron desantis and the governor of texas, as well. they believe this isn t partisan, that s what they say but databased and certain governors as jen psaki, the press secretary said that simply aren t doing the right
you to drop off your ballot, cutting back on mail-in voting, old playbooks with more momentum in gop-led states. cnn s sara murray reports for us. protect the vote. reporter: after successfully passing restricted new voting laws in states like georgia and texas. ensuring the integrity of the ballot box isn t partisan. reporter: gop lawmakers across the country are readying another round of bills for 2022 that could make it tougher to cast a ballot. a new report from the left-leaning for congress, they are already preparing more bills to allow review of votes, limit vote by mail and new voting requirements. many in the gop followed former president trump s donald trump s lead as he peddled baseless fraud about the 2020 election. in other words, the election was a fraud and we must pass a complete overhaul of our entire election system to ensure it s
administration trying to do a couple things here. number one, this is an incredibly important position that they re filling here. in the last election, it was filled by somebody who was very vocal that this was a safe and secure election. i believe said it was the most secure election in u.s. history. i think what the biden folks are trying to do is recognize there are going to be people they can never reach, to try to link the false claims from the former president and his supporters about widespread election fraud. they re going to a republican who was in charge of election systems to do the best they can to send the message that this isn t partisan. one of the things that has become frustrating for this white house has been how basic fact set, like how an election was run, has become now a partisan football. let s check out something we saw on the house floor, which is a republican member of congress wearing a mask that says, let s go brandon. this is jeff duncan. for the uninit
will not get one. so, kaitlan, it s one thing to say, we re going to offer more vaccines in these communities with mobile clinics and make sure doctors have them, but what is biden s plan to combat this kind of sentiment? well, the white house has tried to appeal to that crowd. they know directly appealing to them likely isn t going to work. these aren t people who voted for president biden. we have seen how so much of this pandemic has become politicized. so they ve often pointed back to local leaders and talking about that. but i think, also, it s just outreach from different other members, looking at people like former senate majority leader, now senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, pushing vaccinations often when he s back home in kentucky. or with the former cdc director, dr. tom friedman said yesterday, reminding people these are vaccines that got started under the trump administration. they were rolled out by the biden administration. s some of them approved under biden.