The Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5325) is an appropriations bill which extended funding at the previous year's levels up to December 9, 2016 (10 weeks). After this, a continuing resolution that extended fiscal year 2017 funding for the United States federal government from December 9, 2016, until April 28, 2017, was passed: the Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017. The bill, passed 10 months after the White House asked for such legislation, includes funding to help fight the Zika virus and study its effects, such as on unborn babies. It also included help for residents of Flint, Michigan and Louisiana. The bill averted a government shutdown mere days before the funding deadline.[1][2]
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- ^ Fox, Maggie. "Congress Finally Passes Zika Funding Bill; Provides $1.1 Billion". NBC News. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ MUKHERJEE, Sy. "It Took Congress 233 Days to Fund the Fight Against Zika". Fortune. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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