Warren 2020

[vanzandt]

https://fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/


Trump administration budget cuts could become a major problem as coronavirus spreads
By Chris Morris
February 26, 2020 11:45 AM EST

The Trump administration recently requested $2.5 billion in emergency funds to prepare the U.S. for a possible widespread outbreak of coronavirus. Critics, though, are pointing out that money might not be necessary if the administration hadn’t spent the past two years largely dismantling government units that were designed to protect against pandemics.

The cuts started in 2018, as the White House focused on eliminating funding to Obama-era disease security programs. In March of that year, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, whose job it was to lead the U.S. response in the event of a pandemic, abruptly left the administration and his global health security team was disbanded.

That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was forced to slash its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% as its funding for the program began to run out. The agency, at the time, opted to focus on 10 priority countries and scale back in others, including China.


Also cut was the Complex Crises Fund, a $30 million emergency response pool that was at the secretary of state’s disposal to deploy disease experts and others in the event of a crisis. (The fund was created by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.)

Overall in 2018, Trump called for $15 billion in reduced health spending that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process.

The effects of those cuts are being felt today. While the CDC announced plans to test people with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19, those have been delayed and only three of the country’s 100 public-health labs have been able to test for coronavirus. The administration’s request for additional funding came roughly two weeks after officials said HHS was almost out of funding for its response to the virus.

The cuts could be especially problematic as COVID-19 continues to spread. Health officials are now warning the U.S. is unlikely to be spared, even though cases are minimal here so far.

"It's not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country any more but a question of when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during a press call Tuesday.

$8 Billion approved by Congress and heading to his desk to be signed.
...And how much did Obama spend? Even AFTER.... 1000 plus Americans died.
Pathetic really.
Maga.

 

[Tony Stark]

$8 Billion approved by Congress and heading to his desk to be signed.
...And how much did Obama spend? Even AFTER.... 1000 plus Americans died.
Pathetic really.
Maga.

Thanks Nancy

 

[Tony Stark]

$8 Billion approved by Congress and heading to his desk to be signed.
...And how much did Obama spend? Even AFTER.... 1000 plus Americans died.
Pathetic really.
Maga.

The president introduced his fiscal year 2021 budget proposal on Feb. 10, just 11 days after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concerns. The spending plan included a 16 percent reduction in CDC funding from the 2020 spending levels.

In fact, all of Trump’s budget proposals have called for cuts to CDC funding, but Congress has intervened each time by passing spending bills with year-over-year increases for the CDC that Trump then signed into law.

 

[Tony Stark]

And that's after a 1000 plus Americans died of swine flu.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/

CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years
By Associated Press

September 26, 2018


NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press.

Flu experts knew it was a very bad season, but at least one found size of the estimate surprising.

“That’s huge,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. The tally was nearly twice as much as what health officials previously considered a bad year, he said.

In recent years, flu-related deaths have ranged from about 12,000 to — in the worst year — 56,000, according to the CDC.

 

[vanzandt]

In fact, all of Trump’s budget proposals have called for cuts to CDC funding, but Congress has intervened each time by passing spending bills with year-over-year increases for the CDC that Trump then signed into law.[/SIZE][/B][/I]

He got elected to trim the fat off of these bloated bureaucratic operations. Had he funded CDC twice its annual amount starting in 2018, we'd be right where we are, and they'd all be driving around in new cars and ordering new office furniture and carpet.

750 Million people in Europe... twice the U.S. population.... but who gives the most money to the WHO btw?

Results:
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World Health Organization blew almost $192 million on travel: report
By Associated Press

May 20, 2019 | 9:26am

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LONDON — The World Health Organization spent nearly $192 million on travel expenses last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

 

[Tony Stark]

He got elected to trim the fat off of these bloated bureaucratic operations. Had he funded CDC twice its annual amount starting in 2018, we'd be right where we are, and they'd all be driving around in new cars and ordering new office furniture and carpet.

750 Million people in Europe... twice the U.S. population.... but who gives the most money to the WHO btw?

Results:
_____________________________________

World Health Organization blew almost $192 million on travel: report
By Associated Press

May 20, 2019 | 9:26am

Enlarge Image

LONDON — The World Health Organization spent nearly $192 million on travel expenses last year, with staffers sometimes breaking the agency’s own rules by traveling in business class, booking expensive last-minute tickets and traveling without the required approvals, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The CDC is not The WHO moron

 

[vanzandt]

The CDC is not The WHO moron

Do I ever call you a "moron"? What is this, the drunk Tony again? Christ almighty you wrote that at 10AM.... in the US at least.
... I don't know why you Russkies like that vodka so damn much. Come visit Tony, we'll turn you on to some real liquor.... might just make you a little more happy. Maybe. Warmer buzz.

 

[Tony Stark]

Do I ever call you a "moron"? What is this, the drunk Tony again? Christ almighty you wrote that at 10AM.... in the US at least.
... I don't know why you Russkies like that vodka so damn much. Come visit Tony, we'll turn you on to some real liquor.... might just make you a little more happy. Maybe. Warmer buzz.

I'm sorry Vanny.Your posts have reached the idiocy levels of idiots like wildchild and B1S2 lately and I instinctively called you a moron like I do them.Please accept my sincerest apologies

 

[vanzandt]

I'm sorry Vanny.Your posts have reached the idiocy levels of idiots like wildchild and B1S2 lately and I instinctively called you a moron like I do them.Please accept my sincerest apologies

I guess there's "good morons on both sides" then Skeezix.

 

[Tony Stark]

Yeah but I was right about 3M wasn't I?


And its going even higher.

1.No

2.Down by around 6 dollars since you said buy