Comments on: Joe Biden Should Let the Experts Speak: Donald Trump’s Decisive Leadership Is Helping Fight the Wuhan Virus. https://thyblackman.com/2020/03/14/joe-biden-should-let-the-experts-speak-donald-trumps-decisive-leadership-is-helping-fight-the-wuhan-virus/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Nicholas https://thyblackman.com/2020/03/14/joe-biden-should-let-the-experts-speak-donald-trumps-decisive-leadership-is-helping-fight-the-wuhan-virus/comment-page-1/#comment-295434 Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:58:05 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=91313#comment-295434 In 2018, the national security officials handling pandemics left or were no longer funded, and the Trump administration did not replace them. Choosing to cut the CDC budget instead. The Trump administration recently requested $2.5 billion in emergency funds to prepare the U.S. for a possible widespread outbreak of coronavirus. Let’s point out that money might not be necessary if the administration hadn’t spent the past two years dismantling government units that were designed to protect against pandemics.
The cuts started in 2018, as the White House began eliminating funding to Obama-era disease security programs. What does Joe Biden have to do with any of this?

As for funding, there’s no question that the Trump administration sought to cut key CDC budget categories. But thanks to Congress, that funding was restored and even increased in bills that Trump ultimately signed.

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