House, Senate Zika negotiations finally start next week

By Susan Ferrechio

Published June 12, 2016 4:01am ET

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House, Senate Zika negotiations finally start next week — The biggest hurdle to an agreement is whether to allow the emergency bill to add to the deficit. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik

A group of House and Senate lawmakers will finally sit down privately next week to work out an emergency federal spending plan to battle Zika, even as Republicans and Democrats battle publicly over how to do it.

Lawmakers have to hammer out the differences between a House-passed measure to divert $622 million of existing funding to fight the virus, and a Senate bill calling for $1.1 billion in new spending.

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