President Biden is calling on lawmakers to approve billions of dollars in emergency aid to battle COVID-19, after Congress eliminated pandemic funding from its final spending bill of the fiscal year.

President Joe Biden: “But if Congress fails to act, we won’t have the supply we need this fall to ensure the shots are available free, easily accessible for all Americans. Even worse, if we need a different vaccine for the future to combat a new variant, we’re not going to have enough money to purchase it. We cannot allow that to happen.”

Pandemic assistance to uninsured U.S. residents is already running out, with some 31 million people set to lose access to free COVID-19 testing, treatment and vaccines. This comes as many states are scaling back or eliminating state-run vaccination and testing sites. Other states, including Arizona, Hawaii, Ohio and Nevada, have stopped reporting daily counts of COVID-19 hospitalizations, infections and deaths.