Posted on 02/27/2020 2:38:13 PM PST by bitt
An Associated Press fact check confirms what Breitbart News reported earlier this week: that Democrat presidential candidates are falsely claiming that President Donald Trump cut funding and personnel needed to fight coronavirus.
On Tuesday, Breitbart News fact-checked “mostly false” claims by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg during the Democrat debate in South Carolina. Bloomberg claimed that Trump had “fired” a pandemic specialist at the White House, and “defunded” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The implication: Trump was to blame for the spread of coronavirus — even though there have been just over a dozen cases and no fatalities in the U.S.
The truth: the pandemic specialist had left voluntarily during a reorganization of the bloated National Security Council (NSC), and the CDC cuts — as the agency wound down its Ebola response — were only proposed, not enacted.
The AP confirmed Thursday, in an article titled “AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness,” that much of what Democrats are saying about Trump’s response to the coronavirus challenge is simply not true:
Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.
He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.
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The CDC and HHS investigated the Trump Administration??
News to me
Agreed.
Generally..when a DIM opens their mouth they are lying...or horribly misinformed.
Will illegal immigrants kill more US Citizens in 2020 than will die due to the virus? Someone needs to keep tabs.
Whhhaaaaa? AP. Fact checked. Against Dems??
Democrats lie? I am shocked, I tell you shocked
Referring to the nutty dems wasting money.
Every bit of bad news that surfaces is blamed on President Trump, no matter how convoluted.
I like to do the same thing to dims.
No panicking where I live so interesting there is a panic where you are. So my idea that this was all a set up in the markets might not hold water. Still, I worry more that Netflix trades at 200 times earnings than I worry about this virus. Doesn’t smell right that the markets are selling off and not a single death in North America.
This smells to me. I am putting on my tin foil hat because Soros is in here somewhere. I can’t see this unfolding this way without the cooperation of Goldman Sachs and gang as well.
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