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It’s the fault of those mean Republican budget cuts. The CDC had the cash to pay out $25 million in bonuses, but it just couldn’t put the money together to write up guidelines telling hospitals that nurses should have no exposed skin when treating Ebola patients. Will the Republican budget cutting madness never stop? "U.S. taxpayers gave $6 billion in salaries and $25 million in bonuses to an elite corps of health care specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2007, according to data compiled by American Transparency’s OpenTheBooks.com, an online portal aggregating 1.3 billion lines of...

"Well there's only so much you can say in 140 characters and I think a little was lost in translation, " said McCarthy's Digital Director Justin LoFranco. "The point Congressman McCarthy was trying to make is that taxpayer-funded stimulus dollars shouldn't be going to pay for advertisements demonizing American food and beverage establishments. $230 million of stimulus grant money being spent on attack ads against soft drink companies is the sort of egregious Washington waste that taxpayers are fed up with. After all, didn't the president and his economic team promise that the stimulus would keep unemployment under 8 percent?...

Apr 10, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) takes a hit of about $270 million in the Obama administration's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget, including significant cuts to biodefense and emergency preparedness programs, officials revealed today. CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, speaking at a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press conference, said the "overall program budget would come down by about $270 million" under the budget proposal, compared with spending in fiscal year 2012.