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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4379337" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2" target="_blank">Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak</a></p><p></p><p>“Fears of a pandemic come after the Trump administration spent the past several years gutting the very government programs that are tasked with combatting such a crisis.</p><p></p><p>In 2018, for instance, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/" target="_blank">the CDC cut 80% of its efforts</a> to prevent global disease outbreaks because it was running out of money. Ultimately, the department went from working in 49 countries to just ten.</p><p></p><p>Here are some other actions the Trump administration undertook to dismantle government spending programs related to fighting the spread of global diseases, <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/" target="_blank">according to Foreign Policy</a>:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shutting down the entire global health security unit of the National Security Council.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Eliminating the US government's $30-million Complex Crises Fund.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reducing national health spending by $15 billion.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Consistently attacking Mark Green, the director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).”</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4379337, member: 48469"] [URL="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2"]Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak[/URL] “Fears of a pandemic come after the Trump administration spent the past several years gutting the very government programs that are tasked with combatting such a crisis. In 2018, for instance, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/']the CDC cut 80% of its efforts[/URL] to prevent global disease outbreaks because it was running out of money. Ultimately, the department went from working in 49 countries to just ten. Here are some other actions the Trump administration undertook to dismantle government spending programs related to fighting the spread of global diseases, [URL='https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/']according to Foreign Policy[/URL]: [LIST] [*]Shutting down the entire global health security unit of the National Security Council. [*]Eliminating the US government's $30-million Complex Crises Fund. [*]Reducing national health spending by $15 billion. [*]Consistently attacking Mark Green, the director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).” [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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