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Obama Admin Repeatedly Sought Millions In CDC Funding Cuts, Despite Biden’s Attacks On Trump Preparedness
abc14news.com ^ | 3/27/2020 | brandon d. jones

Posted on 03/27/2020 8:09:15 PM PDT by bitt

The Obama administration consistently sought to slice hundreds of tens of millions of dollars in funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), yearly spending plan requests clearly show — seemingly undercutting previous Vice President Joe Biden’s repeated assaults on the Trump White Residence for its pandemic preparedness.

A lot of Democrats, which include Biden, have falsely claimed that Trump slashed the CDC budget, and Biden has advised that he would under no circumstances go after very similar cuts. The Associated Press has famous that those people promises “distort” the specifics, with FactCheck.org pointing out that CDC funding has essentially elevated beneath the existing administration, mostly because Congress insisted on keeping funding amounts for equally CDC and the National Institutes of Wellness (NIH).

However, talking to ABC News’ “This Week” on March 1, Biden claimed: “They’ve cut the funding for the CDC.” On Friday, Biden stepped up his assaults, writing on Twitter: “Donald Trump’s careless, shortsighted steps remaining our country sick-geared up and now People are paying the selling price.”

In its fiscal year 2013 price range, when Biden was vice president, the Obama administration sought a complete funding level of $5.9 billion from the CDC, or a $569 million reduce from the 2012 spending budget of $6.46 billion. In fiscal calendar year 2015, the Obama administration desired a $414 million slash 12 months-above-12 months, and again in the fiscal year 2017 finances, the Obama administration looked to eradicate $251 million in CDC funding.

The proposed cuts consider into account revenue budgeted for The Prevention and Community Health Fund, which was set up less than the Affected individual Protection and Economical Treatment Act of 2010 to bolster the nation’s well being care program. When not which includes that fund, the Obama administration sought CDC cuts in five

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1 posted on 03/27/2020 8:09:15 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 03/27/2020 8:09:29 PM PDT by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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also

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-admin-repeatedly-sought-millions-in-cdc-funding-cuts


3 posted on 03/27/2020 8:10:29 PM PDT by bitt (forget the electric chair..we're gonna need electric bleachers!)
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Well, I’m thinking that everybody in the CDC should be fired.

The funding cut in half.

New staff should be tasked with developing quick testing technology and rolling out testing to get accurate measures of pandemic model parameters for prognostication.


4 posted on 03/27/2020 8:16:44 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bitt
hundreds of tens of millions of dollars

In other words billions?

5 posted on 03/27/2020 8:18:52 PM PDT by lasereye
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”... hundreds of tens of millions of dollars...”

Huh? 🤔

6 posted on 03/27/2020 8:19:07 PM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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To: bitt

That article has many grammatical errors. Sentences make no sense.


7 posted on 03/27/2020 8:19:32 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY)
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To: bitt
The article says this:
“Now, President Obama’s 2012 budget calls for paring some of that spending. Funding for a general public wellness crisis preparedness plan run by the Centers for Disease Management and Avoidance was slice by about $72 million underneath fiscal 2010 stages in the spending plan proposal.” The Wall Road Journal reported in 2012.

The Wall Road Journal?

8 posted on 03/27/2020 8:22:03 PM PDT by lasereye
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Did someone write this in their coloring book....?


9 posted on 03/27/2020 8:25:12 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: lasereye

Horrible writing.


10 posted on 03/27/2020 8:25:47 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY)
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To: Vendome

I went to a couple of other things he has written by clicking on his name and they were just as bad.


11 posted on 03/27/2020 8:26:37 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY)
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ABC??

Looks like the long knives are coming out for Slow Joe.


12 posted on 03/27/2020 8:35:03 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Trump trumps Hate)
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This doesn’t surprise me. It was my take he was here to
dismantle our nation any way he could.

He didn’t just bow to foreign leaders, he wanted us all to.


13 posted on 03/27/2020 8:35:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hi! My name is Larry, and I'm a COVID-19FearPhobicAholic. Hi Larry, welcome. We've been there.)
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To: bitt

Where the Hell was this written? China? Can’t read for all the mistakes.


14 posted on 03/27/2020 8:35:31 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: bitt

Wow, this came from ABC News.

Hmmmm.


15 posted on 03/27/2020 8:37:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bitt

The truth slowly leaking out.


16 posted on 03/27/2020 8:38:15 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: dfwgator

The total comes to $1,234,000,000.00 with the information given. That is not chump change.


17 posted on 03/27/2020 8:39:51 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: dandiegirl

I quiet befree tehee ending...


18 posted on 03/27/2020 8:41:32 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: bitt

Color me shocked
/s


19 posted on 03/27/2020 8:49:52 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (RIP Neil Peart. My heart is still broken. I will never get over the loss. So intelligent so talented)
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To: comebacknewt

It does look like everyone’s going after Biden. What are they going to do? Who’s left? It looks like the DNC convention should be quite interesting this year. I kind of feel sorry for Biden. It’s like the jackals are after him. Not yet those button


20 posted on 03/27/2020 8:52:33 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (RIP Neil Peart. My heart is still broken. I will never get over the loss. So intelligent so talented)
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