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People are blaming trump and while I'm no fan, the cdc is an embarrassment. How many decades did they have to prepare for disease control?

TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
Didn't the Trump administration slash CDC funding? This claims so: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2?utm_source=markets&utm_medium=ingest&r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-cuts-programs-respo... And here we have him saying "I'm a businessperson. I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them," Trump said. "When we need them, we can get them back very quickly." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-defends-cuts-cdc-budget-federal-government-hire-doctors-coronavirus-2020-2-1028946602?op=1 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-defend...
- wideasleep1 7y ago
  Not exactly. Again, 1 screen, but folks are seeing 2 different movies. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-budget-remarks/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-bud...
  - gdubs 7y ago
    Your link — which you’ve posted twice — doesn’t address the points being made. It’s a fact that the pandemic response team was cut, and it’s a fact that the White House budget proposal included cuts to the CDC. 1: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
    - wideasleep1 7y ago
      You should read the factcheck.org link more carefully, as it details/addresses these points, and also indicates congress indeed funded (they control the purse, after all) the CDC, despite Trump's proposal.
rabidrat 7y ago
Obama ramped up the CDC pandemic response team in 2014 after bird flu, and Trump let CDC leadership roles go unfilled in 2018 after they left. The Trump admin is directly responsible for the CDC becoming an 'embarrassment' as you say. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bl...
- wideasleep1 7y ago
  Or https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-budget-remarks/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-bud... /heh, folks downvoting factcheck.org these days....
  - belltaco 7y ago
    Or https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0... Maybe get a fact check on that?
    - wideasleep1 7y ago
      Very well. Point two, on a link proffered by someone else earlier: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bl... Now, Trump can claim he INCREASED CDC's budget..because it's true.
spaced-out 7y ago
I thought the whole reason we were putting this businessman in charge was because he's going to run things better? Now the government is running worse than ever and he's spreading misinformation on a regular basis.

TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago

Didn't the Trump administration slash CDC funding? This claims so: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2?utm_source=markets&utm_medium=ingest&r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-cuts-programs-respo... And here we have him saying "I'm a businessperson. I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them," Trump said. "When we need them, we can get them back very quickly." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-defends-cuts-cdc-budget-federal-government-hire-doctors-coronavirus-2020-2-1028946602?op=1 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-defend...

wideasleep1 7y ago
Not exactly. Again, 1 screen, but folks are seeing 2 different movies. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-budget-remarks/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-bud...
- gdubs 7y ago
  Your link — which you’ve posted twice — doesn’t address the points being made. It’s a fact that the pandemic response team was cut, and it’s a fact that the White House budget proposal included cuts to the CDC. 1: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
  - wideasleep1 7y ago
    You should read the factcheck.org link more carefully, as it details/addresses these points, and also indicates congress indeed funded (they control the purse, after all) the CDC, despite Trump's proposal.

rabidrat 7y ago

Obama ramped up the CDC pandemic response team in 2014 after bird flu, and Trump let CDC leadership roles go unfilled in 2018 after they left. The Trump admin is directly responsible for the CDC becoming an 'embarrassment' as you say. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bl...

wideasleep1 7y ago
Or https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-budget-remarks/ https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-bud... /heh, folks downvoting factcheck.org these days....
- belltaco 7y ago
  Or https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0... Maybe get a fact check on that?
  - wideasleep1 7y ago
    Very well. Point two, on a link proffered by someone else earlier: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bloomberg/did-donald-trump-fire-pandemic-officials-defund-cd/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/28/michael-bl... Now, Trump can claim he INCREASED CDC's budget..because it's true.

spaced-out 7y ago

I thought the whole reason we were putting this businessman in charge was because he's going to run things better? Now the government is running worse than ever and he's spreading misinformation on a regular basis.