McConnell Says CDC Should Get Money Needed to Battle Ebola [Defers to CDC on travel ban!]

Roll Call ^ | 10/16/2014 | Niels Lesniewski

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

If federal health agencies under President Barack Obama want more money to fight Ebola, they should get it, according to the Senate’s top Republican.

“I think they should have anything they want. The president asked for $88 million a few weeks ago, we gave it to him,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told MSNBC. “Whatever the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] thinks they need, we’ll give it to them.”

The White House hasn’t yet requested more money, although some Democrats have blasted cuts to the CDC budget and other accounts from sequestration.

MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt asked McConnell about recent comments by National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins about how funding levels have contributed to delays in developing a vaccination for Ebola, as well as the broader question of if more funding is needed to handle the immediate crisis.

As for the calls for the calls for travel restrictions such as flight bans, McConnell deferred to the health officials at the CDC, something many senators in his caucus have not done.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I heard the quote today. The reporter asked him about imposing a travel ban on incoming flights from West Africa. He answered, saying something like, "I'll go along with whatever the CDC recommends."

You Braveheart, man.

[Red in Blue PA]

Effing Ahole.

Does not give a damn about Americans.

[Fungi]

Shut up dodo. You have your race sealed and now you are going to blow it. Par for the course for the stupid party. Republicans simply do not know how to play hardball.

[LostInBayport]

Just like he’ll defer to President Obola when it comes to judicial nominees for SCOTUS.

What a pathetic shell of a man (yes, that’s a turtle joke).

[spodefly]

Voting choices, 2014 Midterm:

Evil Party

Gutless Party

[jimbo123]

Cornyn said the same thing. No travel ban because it's unfair to Africa.

[manc]

he and most of them elitist types in both parties care nothing about Americans , because he knows he will be alright and get the best medical care

[Red in Blue PA]

I am usually a 2A voter.

This time around I will be an ebola voter. Anyone not calling for a travel ban will not get my vote.

[Sirius Lee]

|3itch McConnell is too stupid to be allowed to retain his seat. I don’t live in KY and can’t vote against him, alas. Wish I could.

[EternalVigilance]

[dowcaet]

When the GOP wins back the Senate I hope enough of them get together and kick Mr. Turtlehead to the curb. Enough of McConnell’s decisive indecisiveness. Sadly, we know it won’t happen nor will Speaker Crybaby give up the gavel. We’re stuck again with Mitch and John Sellout aka The Boughtoff Boys.

[Paladin2]

(Ditch) Mitch should be holding Bammy and the libtard head of the CDC to account.

No wonder the 'rats will control the Senate after 2016...

[EternalVigilance]

[Defers to CDC on travel ban!]

Not only stupid, in terms the potential danger to millions of Americans, but politically deaf as well.

[Brother Cracker]

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

What a pathetic shell of a man (yes, that’s a turtle joke).

He's a turtle with the head of a chicken.

Pathetic.

Please God, give us Ted Cruz!

[Paladin2]

[Travis McGee]

[Dr. Ursus]

McConnell and his wife only want the perks of D.C. And nothing else!

[Kickass Conservative]

Hear, hear! Time to enhance the Resume of Ted Cruz.

Texas Senator, Senate Majority Leader and President of the United States of America.

Smartest guy in the room, whenever he walks into one.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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