Biden Falls Short on Pledge for U.S. to Be the World’s Vaccine ‘Arsenal,’ Experts Say August 25, 2021 Auto Bot American Rescue Plan (2021), Biden, Joseph R Jr, BioNTech SE, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Covax, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna Inc, Novavax Inc, Pfizer Inc, United States Politics and Government, Vaccination and Immunization 0 Congress appropriated $16 billion to ramp up Covid-19 countermeasures, but a new report found that the Biden administration had spent very little of it on expanding vaccine manufacturing capacity.