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Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response

Dawg

President
Supporting Member

Nutty Cortez

Dummy (D) NY
White House considers appointing coronavirus czar

Lol

Uh they did a month ago.


You really suck at this.


January 29: President Trump establishes a dozen-member Coronavirus Task Force led by Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

February 25: Democrat Senator spread misinformation, falsely claims "Trump has put no one in charge of Coronavirus."
 

kaz

Small l libertarian
Of course there are going to be new viruses and new epidemics that's why aTrump's gutting of the CDC response team was negligent.
Repeating a lie doesn't make it truth. The CDC budget went UP every year under Trump. You're just lying again.

John Adams: Facts are stubborn things

You owe Trump an apology
 

FakeName

Governor
Repeating a lie doesn't make it truth. The CDC budget went UP every year under Trump. You're just lying again.

John Adams: Facts are stubborn things

You owe Trump an apology
The proof is above. cited. facts are stubborn things
 

FakeName

Governor
There was no proof that the CDC budget was cut. It wasn't. That is a lie. The CDC budget went up every year under Trump
Try to pay attention.

This is what was cut :

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For the United States, the answers are especially worrying because the government has intentionally rendered itself incapable. In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure. In numerous phone calls and emails with key agencies across the U.S. government, the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion. If the United States still has a clear chain of command for pandemic response, the White House urgently needs to clarify what it is—not just for the public but for the government itself, which largely finds itself in the dark.

If the United States still has a clear chain of command for pandemic response, the White House urgently needs to clarify what it is

When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, President Barack Obama recognized that responding to the outbreak overseas, while also protecting Americans at home, involved multiple U.S. government departments and agencies, none of which were speaking to one another. Basically, the U.S. pandemic infrastructure was an enormous orchestra full of talented, egotistical players, each jockeying for solos and fame, refusing to rehearse, and demanding higher salaries—all without a conductor. To bring order and harmony to the chaos, rein in the agency egos, and create a coherent multiagency response overseas and on the homefront, Obama anointed a former vice presidential staffer, Ronald Klain, as a sort of “epidemic czar” inside the White House, clearly stipulated the roles and budgets of various agencies, and placed incident commanders in charge in each Ebola-hit country and inside the United States. The orchestra may have still had its off-key instruments, but it played the same tune.

Building on the Ebola experience, the Obama administration set up a permanent epidemic monitoring and command group inside the White House National Security Council (NSC) and another in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)—both of which followed the scientific and public health leads of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the diplomatic advice of the State Department.

On the domestic front, the real business of assuring public health and safety is a local matter, executed by state, county, and city departments that operate under a mosaic of laws and regulations that vary jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Some massive cities, such as New York City or Boston, have large budgets, clear regulations, and epidemic experiences that have left deep benches of medical and public health talent. But much of the United States is less fortunate on the local level, struggling with underfunded agencies, understaffing, and no genuine epidemic experience. Large and small, America’s localities rely in times of public health crisis on the federal government.

Bureaucracy matters. Without it, there’s nothing to coherently manage an alphabet soup of agencies housed in departments ranging from Defense to Commerce, Homeland Security to Health and Human Services (HHS).


But that’s all gone now.
 
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