Yeah, Zika’s still a thing — so why won’t Congress pass funding to fight it?

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By Emma Foehringer MerchantSep 20, 2016, 2:28 pm291 pts
For the past seven months, public funding for Zika prevention has been caught in an extended partisan tango. Today, legislators were supposed to vote on a deal to commit over $1 billion to fighting the disease, but Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) just postponed the vote for the second time in two days: 10…

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