Posted on 02/28/2020 8:30:51 PM PST by karpov
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
MIKE BLOOMBERG: “There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he’s defunded — he’s defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing.” — debate Tuesday night.
JOE BIDEN, comparing the Obama-Biden administration with now: “We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget. ... He’s wiped all that out. ... He cut the funding for the entire effort.”
THE FACTS: They’re both wrong to say the agencies have seen their money cut. Bloomberg is repeating the false allegation in a new ad that states the U.S. is unprepared for the virus because of “reckless cuts” to the CDC. Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH. Instead, financing has increased.
Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease.
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Amazing, the AP going against the establishment liars.
L8r
Nobody saw this coming.
Democrats do not politicize serious threats like war or disease. They say we should unite instead in order to defeat Republicans.
thanks for the post
People on the right, their media and politicians, and this administration need to wake up and begin to realize we are in a media/propaganda/messaging war of the highest order.
And “the truth” does not matter one whit.
Stop pretending it does. It’s a deadly distraction.
DemonRats lie. Everything they say is a lie. They would not exist if they didn’t lie.
Morons believe their lies.
Well they point out that Trump wanted to cut them.
But I think it’s better to them to get it right now than make the candidates look like fools closer to the election.
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The Democrats trying to score political points over Coronavirus have not read the memo:
They are _not_ supposed to cause panic.
Those mixed messages should lead to some hilarious gaffes on the campaign trail in the next few weeks—Joe Biden comments should be fun fun fun!
Biden already claimed that he personally cured Ebola.
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