Biden likely to arrive at his own Covid-19 summit empty-handed, as he struggles to secure funding at home and abroad

President Joe Biden is co-hosting the second global Covid-19 summit on Thursday, where he will ask wealthy countries to ramp up their financial contributions to vaccinations, testing and treatments -- even as he is struggling to secure funding to fight the virus at home and abroad. The Biden administration asked Congress in March to authorize $22.5 billion in additional Covid-19 assistance, including $5 billion for the global pandemic, but the package has been repeatedly waylaid. The Senate reached a bipartisan deal in April to approve $10 billion in aid, but it stripped out global Covid-19 financing entirely. This has put the President in an awkward position: He will probably show up to his own summit empty-handed.