This is an additional amount to the BILLIONS already spent on preparedness and treatment.
I’m good with this. And to the whiners who say that Trump is just now getting engaged, where the heck have YOU BEEN for the past three months?!
He’s been engaged and PROACTIVE since DECEMBER!
Both business groups Forbes and Fortune are concerned with the fact that Trump has been cutting the CDC budget over the years.
https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/
Quote from the third link: “In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure. In numerous phone calls and emails with key agencies across the U.S. government, the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion. If the United States still has a clear chain of command for pandemic response, the White House urgently needs to clarify what it is—not just for the public but for the government itself, which largely finds itself in the dark.”