GOP to Dems: Let’s pass Zika funding tomorrow

Published August 4, 2016 5:25pm ET



Republican are calling on Democrats to pass a Zika funding measure as soon as tomorrow, when the Senate is scheduled to hold a pro-forma session.

“If Senate Democrats want to pass a bill now … they can simply give unanimous consent to pass the conference report in tomorrow’s session and send it straight to the president,” Don Stewart, spokesman for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told the Washington Examiner.

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