Advocacy group launches ads pushing Manchin, other Democrats to back pandemic funding
WASHINGTON -- An advocacy group founded to prevent future pandemics is launching a new round of TV ads Tuesday, urging key Democratic senators to support a $30 billion proposal designed to help prepare for coming viral outbreaks.
The ads from the group, Guarding Against Pandemics, come as lawmakers debate reducing funding for future pandemic preparedness as part of a larger multi-trillion-dollar spending package. The group argues in the ads that any such cuts would be a mistake after the the catastrophe of the coronavirus pandemic.
“To prevent another 2020, Congress must act,” the ad says.
Guarding Against Pandemics will spend $150,000 on broadcast and cable TV ads aimed at seven Democratic senators across six states: Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Patty Murray of Washington, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, and Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia.
The ads referencing Warren, Murray and Hassan will praise them for supporting the pandemic spending, while the ads about Sinema, Manchin, Warner, Kaine and Luján will tell viewers to call the senators’ office urging them to back the new funding.
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