Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing
U.S. President Barack Obama meets with his national security and public health team to receive an update on the Ebola response while in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, November 4, 2014. From L-R are: Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell and Obama.
The money will be designated as 'emergency' funds and thus technically not subject to an equal amount of savings from other programs, according to one official.
(Reporting By Richard Cowan and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
