House of Representatives members Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat who represents a New York City district, and Maria Salazar, a Republican who represents a district in Miami, are sending what they're calling "a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Department of State, urging it to expand efforts to vaccinate the nine million Americans living abroad," and urging others to join them. 

Carolyn Maloney, the Democratic Congresswoman who represents a New York City district, and who co-founded the Americans Abroad Caucus in 2008, told a virtual Town Hall of American expats from around the world on Monday that she would "soon be announcing a new, [Republican] co-chair" for the organization. 

As U.S. members of Congress have been reluctantly working in Washington this week to attend to urgent business – instead of taking the month off, as they normally would do this time year – many are reportedly also taking the opportunity to continue to press the Biden administration to provide Covid-19 vaccines to American expats who happen to live in certain far-flung parts of the world, where such vaccines are almost non-existent. 

As this publication and others have been reporting in recent months, Americans resident in Thailand have become increasingly vocal in their calls for the U.S. government to provide them and their families with Covid-19 vaccinations, as it has done for their fellow U.S. citizens – and taxpayers – back home...

Foreigners currently resident in Thailand "must receive 20% of a 1.5 million [dose] batch" of Covid-19 vaccines that the U.S. has commited to donate to Thailand, the chief of Thailand's National Security Council has been quoted as telling the country's media organizations.