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Incompetence
Posted on: March 10, 2020 at 12:06:19 CT
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Eck. One more turd to plop in the simmering stew of Trump’s incompetence, evidencing how careless, unprepared, and unworthy Trump is to be POTUS.
NBC News had a good report on this recently, noting that the president's decision "to downsize the White House national security staff -- and eliminate jobs addressing global pandemics -- is likely to hamper the U.S. government's response to the coronavirus."
The truth is probably “because Obama,” who with VP Biden established the pandemic response unit as part of the National Security Council, able to respond in the U.S. and work in concert with governments around the world to curb the spread of deadly diseases. Ebola and SARS outbreaks made it apparent we needed to be prepared for viral contagion that would more than likely arrive on our shores in the future.
The future arrived.
Recall that he’s already slashed funding and recently proposed another 16% cut to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), America’s preeminent authority on disease and pandemics — America’s front line against public health threats like COVID-19.
In its latest budget proposal (for 2021), the Trump administration sought to cut CDC funding by (another) 16% — even as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar seeks emergency spending from lawmakers to combat the coronavirus.
When first asked why he disbanded the pandemic response team in 2018 — the same year Trump and Republicans had no problem giving a trillion dollar tax cut to people who didn’t need one — he responded:
"I'm a business person," he explained two weeks ago in response to a similar question. "I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."
Except you can’t reassemble a team like that ‘very quickly.’ One more check mark in the long column of items on the “Trump is clueless about ...’ list. This one evidencing how utterly devoid of understanding and unconcerned he is about how the executive branch should work.
Not to mention his complete disregard as president in fulfilling his duty to protect American lives when cameras aren’t rolling and he can pretend to have it all under control.
We don’t yet know the extent of contagion because we haven’t had enough tests to go around. And the Trump administration wouldn’t allow independent testing.
NBC News had a good report on this recently, noting that the president's decision "to downsize the White House national security staff -- and eliminate jobs addressing global pandemics -- is likely to hamper the U.S. government's response to the coronavirus."
The truth is probably “because Obama,” who with VP Biden established the pandemic response unit as part of the National Security Council, able to respond in the U.S. and work in concert with governments around the world to curb the spread of deadly diseases. Ebola and SARS outbreaks made it apparent we needed to be prepared for viral contagion that would more than likely arrive on our shores in the future.
The future arrived.
Recall that he’s already slashed funding and recently proposed another 16% cut to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), America’s preeminent authority on disease and pandemics — America’s front line against public health threats like COVID-19.
In its latest budget proposal (for 2021), the Trump administration sought to cut CDC funding by (another) 16% — even as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar seeks emergency spending from lawmakers to combat the coronavirus.
When first asked why he disbanded the pandemic response team in 2018 — the same year Trump and Republicans had no problem giving a trillion dollar tax cut to people who didn’t need one — he responded:
"I'm a business person," he explained two weeks ago in response to a similar question. "I don't like having thousands of people around when you don't need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly."
Except you can’t reassemble a team like that ‘very quickly.’ One more check mark in the long column of items on the “Trump is clueless about ...’ list. This one evidencing how utterly devoid of understanding and unconcerned he is about how the executive branch should work.
Not to mention his complete disregard as president in fulfilling his duty to protect American lives when cameras aren’t rolling and he can pretend to have it all under control.
We don’t yet know the extent of contagion because we haven’t had enough tests to go around. And the Trump administration wouldn’t allow independent testing.
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Incompetence - Ace AU - 3/10 12:06:19
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