usaid is sitting on $is.2 billion -- $1.2 billion in unobligated ebola funds. the office of the assistant secretary for preparedness and response currently has $347 million not being put to use, and there is $525 million in c.d.c.'s global health agenda that is unspoken for to the extent the zika virus is truly an emergency, one that deserves the federal government's attention, we already have more than enough unused emergency funds to pay for the fight against this emerging threat. yesterday my colleague, the distinguished junior senator from oklahoma, senator lankford, illustrated that this administration has tens of billions of dollars in unobligated discretionary funds to pay for this as well. what we should not do, however, is allow the zika virus to be yet anotherexcuse to run you the national debt so appropriators can come back and use unspent emergency money on nonemergency parochial priorities at some later date. the entire emergency spending label is perhaps to some a little bit misleading. it does not mean that the money gets spent any faster. all it