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<blockquote data-quote="Returntosender" data-source="post: 4398819" data-attributes="member: 29240">Overall in 2018, Trump called for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-calls-on-congress-to-pull-back-15-billion-in-spending-including-on-childrens-health-insurance-program/2018/05/07/9427de18-5216-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html" target="_blank">$15 billion in reduced health spending</a> that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process.The effects of those cuts are being felt today. While the CDC announced plans to test people with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19, those <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/cdc-coronavirus-116529" target="_blank">have been delayed</a>and only three of the country’s 100 public-health labs have been able to test for coronavirus. The administration’s request for additional funding came roughly two weeks after officials said HHS was almost out of funding for its response to the virus.<a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/amp/" target="_blank">Trump administration budget cuts could become a major problem as coronavirus spreads</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Returntosender, post: 4398819, member: 29240"] Overall in 2018, Trump called for [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-calls-on-congress-to-pull-back-15-billion-in-spending-including-on-childrens-health-insurance-program/2018/05/07/9427de18-5216-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html']$15 billion in reduced health spending[/URL] that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process. The effects of those cuts are being felt today. While the CDC announced plans to test people with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19, those [URL='https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/cdc-coronavirus-116529']have been delayed[/URL]and only three of the country’s 100 public-health labs have been able to test for coronavirus. The administration’s request for additional funding came roughly two weeks after officials said HHS was almost out of funding for its response to the virus. [URL="https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2020/02/26/coronavirus-covid-19-cdc-budget-cuts-us-trump/amp/"]Trump administration budget cuts could become a major problem as coronavirus spreads[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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