Democrats are turning up the heat on GOP leaders to call off the rest of Congress's recess to come back and deal with the Zika virus.
With the virus now spreading through Florida, more than 40 Senate Democrats wrote to the top two congressional Republicans on Thursday urging them to “immediately cancel” the remaining four weeks of break and approve emergency funding.
“The problems the American people confront do not disappear simply because Congress does,” the Democrats wrote in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wisc.).
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