Hillary Clinton Correct In Stating U.S. Congress Has Not Approved New Spending For Zika Response, PolitiFact Reports

PolitiFact: Clinton: U.S. Congress hasn’t ‘allocated one penny’ to fight Zika
“Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stepped into the Zika funding debate and chastised Congress for failing to step up to the plate. … [T]o settle one piece of this fact-check, in terms of committing new dollars explicitly to combat the Zika virus, Congress has not done that…” (Greenberg, 3/25).

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