Why hasn’t Congress passed additional funding for the virus
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They're working on it.
Something should be finalized in the next couple of weeks.
Something should be finalized in the next couple of weeks.
Who would administrate the use of funding if approved. The infrastructure has been decimated and there are about 100 different admin officials “in charge” of things.
Also, why should congress give money to a HOAX?
You insisted "we were prepared" for this.
Now "more funding is needed", within days?
Hmmm....someone's starting to wake up!
This forum is full of Examples of the destruction this admin has done to the involved agencies and various task force.
There used to be a team that dealt with preparing for possible epidemics and how we'd respond if one ever hit the US. That team was dismantled by Trump.
Can't mexico pay for a wall between us and the virus?
You're asking this now after Trump gutted the funding for these agencies?
If they fund it now maybe Trump will just funnel it towards the wall of southern aggression because that's super important.
at any point in history when disasters have struck etc the President has always requested additional funding, this is not something new to Trump
Again, maybe if they had been adequately funded from the beginning this action by Congress wouldn't be necessary. More troubling is the lack of experience and leadership at the top of these federal agencies which are now littered with the political cronies of Herr Drumpf. Should we fund agencies that have had most of their most experienced managers replaced by these dunderheads? Seems like a poor allocation of resources.
Maybe take that extra funding and start purchasing body bags?
Elections have consequences.
https://time.com/3559031/obama-ebola-funding/
Also the funds were never cut, Congress never approved them
Not talking about that, rather this:
https://markets.businessinsider.com...nt-hire-doctors-coronavirus-2020-2-1028946602
Yes. They were. This has been pointed out to you over and over again.
I've linked at least 2 articles outlining it. CDC's pandemic response capabilities lost 80% of their budget.
I even used an "NFL team budget" example for you, as if the Patriots would be expected to contend again for the playoffs, if Kraft cut their payroll by 80% (to just 20% existing).
You never answer that one. You ran away like a scared little girl afraid to face reality.
Yes. The divisions that handled frontline pandemic monitoring and response were defunded to the tune of an 80% reduction in 2018. I've posted the links about it several times.
again money that was never actually cut only proposed. Put politics aside for a second and think about new programs etc. Initial start ups take a lot of money to get things going hiring, infrastructure, training, etc but once that is in place the money doesn't need to be spent. Correct? As far as personal goes despite what others think there are teams in place ready to be activated including the military for these types of events. Playing Monday morning quarterback is easy if you hate the guy, but realistically was he supposed to spend additional billions of dollars for a disaster that may or may not come. Have other Presidents asked for an extra trillion dollars in their budget on top of the money already allocated to disasters just in case a hurricane may hit this year?
Trump Jr. will, duuh! I mean, generally speaking, if the Trumps are accusing others of doing something bad odds are that it is an activity they themselves are already engaged in. So, using that logic they keep feeding the whole "coronavirus is a conspiracy against Trump thing". Maybe this is just a really convoluted way to get funding for his wall.
In the spring of 2018, the White House pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to eliminate $252 million in previously committed resources for rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. Under fire from both sides of the aisle, President Donald Trump dropped the proposal to eliminate Ebola funds a month later. But other White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated.
Who had the majority in the House of Representatives?
Who had the majority in the House of Representatives?
OP is an idiot. My president told me that this virus will be done by April.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ite-house-business-session-nations-governors/
Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape though. We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now. So — but a very good question.
It's 79 degrees today in Singapore. Are you smocking rocks?
If congress did approve the funds would President Trump withhold those funds unless America agreed to give him another term?
And would Republicans argue that this quid pro quo was ok too.
AGAIN, money for the monitoring and pandemic rapid response for CDC was CUT 80%. They CLOSED 4/5ths of their field offices, and the workload balance had to be borne by the remaining workforce. Basically having to cover 5x as much stuff as they normally would.
ANY IDIOT can identify that compromised capability. Just like dumping 80% of payroll would turn the New England Patriots into the Cleveland Browns, overnight.
DIPSHIT here don't even READ his OWN LINKS:
It is also true that in 2018 the Trump administration fired key officials connected to the U.S. pandemic response, and they were not replaced.
Also in 2018, news reports circulated that detailed the Trump administration’s cut by 80% to the CDC’s program that worked in various countries to fight epidemics. “Countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo,” the Washington Post reported in 2018.
The fact that epidemic prevention-efforts were scaled back in China gained new significance in February 2020 as coronavirus spread globally after it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
U.S. legislators in late February were discussing billions of dollars in funding for coronavirus response.
This is why I've posted that your facility's patients really deserve a better Murse. Your attention to detail is practically nonexistent.Also in 2018, news reports circulated that detailed the Trump administration’s cut by 80% to the CDC’s program that worked in various countries to fight epidemics. “Countries where the CDC is planning to scale back include some of the world’s hot spots for emerging infectious disease, such as China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda and Congo,” the Washington Post reported in 2018.
The fact that epidemic prevention-efforts were scaled back in China gained new significance in February 2020 as coronavirus spread globally after it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.
U.S. legislators in late February were discussing billions of dollars in funding for coronavirus response.
Holy Christ, you really are an idiot. No wonder you support Trump.
More like astounded. It's like watching someone on the subway reach into the backside of their pants and eat what they just found.
And I provided you the SAME information on the 80% cuts to CDC's pandemic response capabilities. You ignored it then, you JUST LINKED IT and ignored it again.
This is really truly sad for you, man.
And the very next poster supplied it, not that they had to. It's a pretty well known Trump claim.
The cognitive dissonance literally shuts his brain down as soon as he sees anything that disputes the GOP talking points.
Sad.
