[Carry_Okie]

Even if the CDC was the perfect example of how a federal agency should operate, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend to pay for the kind of public service that the CDC was established to do.

Agreed with a caveat: It is legitimately arguable that precluding the entry of an often fatal and highly contagious disease onto American shores is a matter of national defense. Hence: CDC is clearly failing at the one possibly legitimate power it might exercise.

[PapaBear3625]

Agreed with a caveat: It is legitimately arguable that precluding the entry of an often fatal and highly contagious disease onto American shores is a matter of national defense. Hence: CDC is clearly failing at the one possibly legitimate power it might exercise.

In which case, it properly belongs under the military.