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Ed Markey: “We are on the front line now helping Ukraine to beat back authoritarian incursion into their country and to Europe, but…”

On the recordMay 10, 2022
We are on the front line now helping Ukraine to beat back authoritarian incursion into their country and to Europe, but we are not still not on the front line in terms of providing aid for the vaccination of people around the world with the goal of 70 percent of the world vaccinated by October of this year.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes the need for global vaccination funding amid Ukraine's conflict.

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