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House Democrats Argue Against Diverting Ebola Funding to Coronavirus Response
Epoch Times ^ | 26 Feb 2020 | Zachary Stieber

Posted on 02/26/2020 10:39:28 AM PST by datura

House Democrats argued against diverting funding for the new coronavirus from preparing for the Ebola virus as they said that the $2.5 billion the White House wants for combating the new virus isn’t adequate.

The White House submitted an emergency request to Congress on Feb. 24, asking for $2.5 billion to combat the new coronavirus, which causes the COVID-19 disease. The money was meant to help research vaccines, boost the surveillance network, and other efforts, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar told a congressional committee in Washington on Wednesday.

Part of the proposal featured moving $535 million from the Ebola preparedness account.

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Hypocrisy writ large, as always by the Rats.

Obama introduces Ebola into the US, and evidently we are spending $535 million each year since then on it? Why????

Please go to the source link and look at the freak who is in charge of this Rat committee!!!

1 posted on 02/26/2020 10:39:28 AM PST by datura
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Of course! Satan forbid that they might potentially save the life of one of the “unwashed masses”. Who knows, they might vote for Trump...why take the chance.


2 posted on 02/26/2020 10:44:37 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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I hope these ignorant jerks all get CORVID19


3 posted on 02/26/2020 10:44:46 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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You can bet that this is a scam that Democrats are getting Ukrainian Burisma style payoffs from

There is no “Ebola Emergency” at this time and there is no plausible threat to the US health and welfare from Ebola at this time

4 posted on 02/26/2020 10:48:50 AM PST by rdcbn ( Referentiai)
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Govt jobs. We are overrun with leeches.


5 posted on 02/26/2020 10:51:18 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Freakazoid! 535 million for Ebola that doesn’t exist in this country. This money is probably filtered into politicians accounts


6 posted on 02/26/2020 10:56:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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“Ebola funding” is a Africa slush fund setup by Obama with the help of the Bush Family.
We don’t need another slush fund for Corona Virus.


7 posted on 02/26/2020 10:56:37 AM PST by Zathras
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To: rdcbn

Once the Ebola programs were created, they were never turned off or intended to end. They keep on going with increasing funding that enriches donors and family members.

Both Republicans and Democrats do not care about your tax money.


8 posted on 02/26/2020 10:58:05 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: datura

Don’t want to intermingle the slush funds.


9 posted on 02/26/2020 10:58:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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You likely find the funding is going to cronies, constituents and supporters. The power to give out money is the whole reason for being in politics.


10 posted on 02/26/2020 11:00:34 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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As a counterpoint - what do you think would happen if jihadists decided to bring ebola to the states at multiple points?

Maybe not the worst idea to have *some* kind of program to combat it. And that program *has* given us remdesavir, intended for use against ebola, that is (so far) found to be effective against the coronavirus.


11 posted on 02/26/2020 11:03:36 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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Yeah, more Obama/Bush slush funds...


12 posted on 02/26/2020 11:04:26 AM PST by datura
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Yep. Must be another nest of corrupt funding.


13 posted on 02/26/2020 11:05:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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“look at the freak who is in charge of this Rat committee!!! :”

That’s a man baby!!


14 posted on 02/26/2020 11:08:40 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE (I'm)
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To: datura

Ebola, another method of Democrat gatekeeping for their plantation!
“Ebola came from Africa, do something!”

Cocid came from Asia ...yawn!


15 posted on 02/26/2020 11:14:49 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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I wish I could post that photo, but the source won’t let me copy it.

People need to see these Democrat freaks!!!


16 posted on 02/26/2020 11:21:55 AM PST by datura
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To: Erik Latranyi

Was it last year that the Y2K reporting was finally shut down?


17 posted on 02/26/2020 11:23:14 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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House Democrats argued against diverting funding for the new coronavirus from preparing for the Ebola virus as they said that the $2.5 billion the White House wants for combating the new virus isn’t adequate.

Someone needs to tell Schumer Americans come before black Africans...

18 posted on 02/26/2020 11:34:04 AM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: lgjhn23

Go ahead, Adam. Expose yourself to the virus and then travel through the heartland, coughing in people’s faces.


19 posted on 02/26/2020 12:11:07 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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Because they say it’s not enough, they don’t want to give him anything at all. They need to pay off their donors, special interests and masters.


20 posted on 02/26/2020 12:39:20 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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