President Obama asked for $1.9 billion in February. The House, with a rowdy caucus of hard-line conservatives, has asked the Obama administration to redirect $622 million in unused Ebola epidemic funds to fight Zika. The Senate, meanwhile, voted Tuesday to move forward on a bipartisan compromise that would provide $1.1 billion in emergency Zika funds. Settling these differences may not happen soon, even as concerns about the virus grow.
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