White House undercuts Republican request to redirect COVID-19 relief funds to infrastructure

By Naomi Lim

Published May 26, 2021 12:00am ET

The White House is casting doubt on Republican calls to redirect unspent COVID-19 funds to pay for some of President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion-plus infrastructure package.

There are not “hundreds of billions of dollars” in unused federal COVID-19 dollars that could be shifted, according to White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.