Minnesota’s junior senator in the nation’s capitol is introducing legislation today aimed to create a national testing strategy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tina Smith, during an interview today with Bemidji Now, said the bipartisan legislation will also appropriate funding to states for items such as hiring contact tracing personnel, enter interstate compacts to procure COVID-19 testing and supplies, and deliver funds to tribal and local health offices.
Smith also spoke on where the potential second round of stimulus checks is in Washington.
Negotiations on the bill between the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate are still pending.
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