Senate nears $10 billion deal to buy Covid vaccines, therapeutics

Top Senate negotiators are working to reach a deal to provide the Biden administration with $10 billion to buy vaccines and therapeutics, Republican lawmakers said Thursday.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has taken the lead on finding common ground with Democrats to advance some money to replenish the Biden administration’s depleted Covid-19 response coffers, told lawmakers a bill is being drafted to provide roughly $10 billion.