Congressional Democrats are introducing legislation to transfer $1bn in funding from a controversial new intercontinental ballistic missile to the development of a universal Covid vaccine. “The United States should invest in a vaccine of mass prevention before another new land-based weapon of mass destruction,” Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts, co-author of the bill, said. This just shows how afraid Northrop Grumman is about the results of the independent study,” Khanna told the Guardian. Northrop Grumman is lobbying hard against this bill,” Khanna said. Even in the best of times, $264bn for new nuclear missiles is money we can’t spare for weapons we don’t need.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 13:31 UTC