The Obama administration repeatedly sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), yearly budget requests show -- seemingly undercutting former Vice President Joe Biden's repeated attacks on the Trump White House for its pandemic preparedness.
Numerous Democrats, including Biden, have falsely claimed that Trump slashed the CDC budget, and Biden has suggested that he would never pursue similar cuts. The Associated Press has noted that those claims "distort" the facts, with FactCheck.org pointing out that CDC funding has actually increased under the current administration, largely because Congress insisted on maintaining funding levels for both CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Nevertheless, speaking to ABC News' “This Week” on March 1, Biden claimed: “They’ve cut the funding for the CDC.” On Friday, Biden stepped up his attacks, writing on Twitter: "Donald Trump's careless, shortsighted actions left our nation ill-prepared and now Americans are paying the price."
In its fiscal year 2013 budget, while Biden was vice president, the Obama administration sought a total funding level of $5.9 billion from the CDC, or a $569 million cut from the 2012 budget of $6.46 billion. In fiscal year 2015, the Obama administration wanted a $414 million cut year-over-year, and again in the fiscal year 2017 budget, the Obama administration looked to eliminate $251 million in CDC funding.
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5 comments:
Give it up those people have been and GONE. NOW we have a very real crisis that no one is to blame for and we have to get on with. This obsession with accountability only applies to those in power NOW. Like them hate them blame them whatever we can't turn back time. Our hatred of them is no better than their hatred for us and really does not solve anything. The Clinton's are DONE the Bush's are DONE the Obama's DONE......Alex Jones DONE.....Rush and Newt DONE and if he keeps running his mouth the present POTUS DONE. It's funny how hysterical and partisan compliant people become for a few beliefs and values that really do not amount to a hill of beans without the true freedom of Equity.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh He was too busy hosting MOTOWN
Yes it would be nice if Democrats gave it up - pointing the finger at Trump. Just like Biden did a few days ago in
6:26 - so now I hope you're done
6:26 pm
Nice try Lib
Obama the infiltrator hates what America is. He did everything in his power to sew the seeds of disruption and division. All he talked about was how GW Bush screwed everything up. Nothing was his fault according to him and the Demonrat lap dogs in the media. Go sell your BS somewhere else because we aint buying it.
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