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\nMayor Bloomberg<\/p>\n
\nMayor Bloomberg<\/p>\n
Never let a serious crisis go to waste.
\n-Rahm Emanuel<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSpeaker Pelosi has wasted no time in criticism of Trump’s response to the coronavirus threat, that Trump doesn\u2019t know what he is doing. Senator Schumer opined \u2018The president only asks for $2.5 million. He should have asked for $8.5 billion.\u2019<\/p>\n
Exactly what he should be doing and how this figure was calculated went unsaid.<\/p>\n
By: JOEL B. POLLAK<\/strong><\/p>\n
An Associated Press fact check confirms what Breitbart News reported earlier this week: that Democrat presidential candidates are falsely claiming that President Donald Trump cut funding and personnel needed to fight coronavirus.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Breitbart News fact-checked \u201cmostly false\u201d claims by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg during the Democrat debate in South Carolina. Bloomberg claimed that Trump had \u201cfired\u201d a pandemic specialist at the White House, and \u201cdefunded\u201d the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The implication: Trump was to blame for the spread of coronavirus \u2014 even though there have been just over a dozen cases and no fatalities in the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n
The truth: the pandemic specialist had left voluntarily during a reorganization of the bloated National Security Council (NSC), and the CDC cuts \u2014 as the agency wound down its Ebola response \u2014 were only proposed, not enacted.<\/p>\n
The AP confirmed Thursday, in an article titled \u201cAP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness,\u201d that much of what Democrats are saying about Trump\u2019s response to the coronavirus challenge is simply not true:<\/p>\n
Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That\u2019s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn\u2019t succeeded in cutting the budget.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren\u2019t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.<\/p>\n
Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness \u2014 the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well color me surprised. Read the entire article here: Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"