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The position that we are in now due to a lack of funding, but rather a lack of planning. my question to you is, has any of this funding, this close to $83 billion that was supposed to be used for testing, been diverted for other purposes? >> senator collins, thank you for this question. testing remains a priority for this administration. all the work we've done on testing has been to promote the expanding of the type of tests available for use in the united states, expanding the supply of tests in the united states and lowering the cost of tests. we used $47 billion that came in the american r...

If you take all five of the bipartisan covid bills, that is about $32 billion. then about 45, 46 billion in the bill that the democrats passed by themselves this year for testing. the real question is, how is that money spent? how could we have a testing shortage now when at the end of last year we had what appeared to be a whole new series of tests coming on the market. i think my other question would be, if the federal government thinks they can buy 500 million at-home tests by the end of this month, where are those tests now? you don't have to look very hard to go to a drugstore and find ou...

Due to a lack of funding but rather a lack of planning. my question to you is has any of this funding, this close to $83 billion that was supposed to be used for testing been diverted for other purposes? >> senator collins, thank you for this question. testing remains a priority for this administration. all the work we've done on testing has been to promote the priorities of expanding the number of testing sites available. expanding the type of tests that are available for use in the united states, expanding the supply of tests in the united states, and lowering the cost of tests. we use the m...

Close to $83 billion that was supposed to be used for testing been diverted for other purposes? >> some of the funds have been used for mitigation efforts. for example, when children are crossing the border. >> dana: dr. fauci at one point caught on a hot mike calling a senator a after a heated exchange about the public availability of a financial disclosure form so that was a slight distraction today. i was going to start with jesse about it, geraldo, i'm so distracted by your amazing haircut that i feel we have to go to you first and find out what you think about this, especially with people...

Financial year, we are forecast to spend £83 billion on debt interest, highest on record. and almost four times the amount we spent last year. that is why, mr speaker, we have already taken difficult decisions with the public finances and that is why we will continue to wait carefully calls for additional public spending. more borrowing is not cost or risk free. i said it last autumn and i say it again today, borrowing down debt down, only the conservatives can be trusted with taxpayers' money. so mr speaker, our response to the immediate crisis in ukraine has been unwavering. but we must be ...