What a fucking bitch. It's one thing to ask a loaded question like that, it's another when you start talking over the speaker and interrupting him because he deflected your loaded question. I can't stand the people who talk over him before he even finishes answering the damn question.
It's a stupid talking point anyways. The panel on pandemics was there because of ebola which was floating around in 2018 but never developed into anything. It's not a consistent panel that hangs around doing nothing until a situation like this emerges. This just goes to show how they want to inflate government further. Let's spend millions upon millions paying big names in big suits to sit around and look busy for the once-in-a-decade time that they are actually necessary. Calls for more laundering of the taxpayers money and more quid pro quo appointments for politicians to repay their favorite private donors.
Also he didnt fire the pandemic response team at the cdc - he fired 1 White House staffer and another staffer left during a reorganization. The staffers were holdovers from the Obama administration "U.S. Pandemic Response Team".
The claim that trump cut cdc funding by 80% is misleading - the funding ran out from its previous allotment and was eventually replaced because congress provided a different funding source
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
What a fucking bitch. It's one thing to ask a loaded question like that, it's another when you start talking over the speaker and interrupting him because he deflected your loaded question. I can't stand the people who talk over him before he even finishes answering the damn question.
It's a stupid talking point anyways. The panel on pandemics was there because of ebola which was floating around in 2018 but never developed into anything. It's not a consistent panel that hangs around doing nothing until a situation like this emerges. This just goes to show how they want to inflate government further. Let's spend millions upon millions paying big names in big suits to sit around and look busy for the once-in-a-decade time that they are actually necessary. Calls for more laundering of the taxpayers money and more quid pro quo appointments for politicians to repay their favorite private donors.
Can someone give a source? My friend wont shut the fuck up about this point and I'd love to just send him details on what the panel actually was.
Hey nvm I found some (the beloved snopes with some hilarious "partly true" and "mixed". But if you read the text in the links the facts are clear.)
Trump didnt cut the funding for cdc - he proposed cuts for 2021 but that budget hasn't been approved by Congress https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-cut-cdc-budget/
Also he didnt fire the pandemic response team at the cdc - he fired 1 White House staffer and another staffer left during a reorganization. The staffers were holdovers from the Obama administration "U.S. Pandemic Response Team". The claim that trump cut cdc funding by 80% is misleading - the funding ran out from its previous allotment and was eventually replaced because congress provided a different funding source https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
The cdc still has their team and resources so their fault is their blame - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/pandemic-flu-fighters.htm