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Did Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team? | Snopes.com

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Legum outlined a series of cost-cutting decisions made by the Trump administration in preceding years that gutted the nation’s infectious disease defense infrastructure. The pandemic response team is a reference to news stories from spring 2018 reporting that White House officials tasked with directing a national response to a pandemic had been ousted.

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Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer abruptly departed from his post leading the global health security team on the National Security Council in May 2018 amid a reorganization of the council by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton. Ziemer’s team was disbanded. Tom Bossert, who as The Washington Post reported, had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks, had been fired one month prior.

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It’s true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

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Legum stated in a follow-up tweet, Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China. That was confirmed in 2018 reports saying that funding for the CDC’s global disease outbreak prevention efforts were cut by 80%, which included the agency’s efforts in China.

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Vice President Mike Pence has taken his first step as head of the president’s Coronavirus Task Force, and in so doing he has made crystal clear what the group’s goal actually is. Pence has added two of the administration’s top economic and finance advisors, Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin, to the list of members.

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The purported goal of the coronavirus task force, presumably, is to coordinate the federal government’s response to the impending pandemic in an effort to minimize transmission and protect Americans from dying.

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But by adding the president’s top economic advisor and the Secretary of the Treasury, Pence has made clear the direction from President Donald Trump us exactly what news reports have already stated: Trump put Pence in charge after being furious over the stock market being in near free-fall Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

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Trump's reputation matters. The stock market matters. People not so much.

Trump: We Must Pay for Pandemic Prep by Cutting Aid to Poor

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A document that the Trump administration sent to Congress, which we have seen, indicates that the administration is transferring $37 million to emergency funding for the coronavirus response from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, which funds heating for poor families.

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Democrats see this as provoking budgetary bickering and unnecessary political friction at a time when a clean emergency appropriation could easily avoid both.

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Of course legally rally information should not come from the White House.

Extremely liberal site: Worker threw exception | www.rawstory.com | Cloudflare

There's a leak saying Trump chose Pence because Pence had nothing else to do.

Trump Identifies the Real Coronavirus Victim: His PresidencyEdited by JonF, : No reason given.

There was no such NYT story.I see you didn't read the following. Trump damaged the CDC and proposes to damage it further in his 2021 budget.He definitely did completely destroy our ability to administer and coordinate the responseDid Trump Administration Fire the US Pandemic Response Team? | Snopes.com

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Legum outlined a series of cost-cutting decisions made by the Trump administration in preceding years that gutted the nation’s infectious disease defense infrastructure. The pandemic response team is a reference to news stories from spring 2018 reporting that White House officials tasked with directing a national response to a pandemic had been ousted.

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Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer abruptly departed from his post leading the global health security team on the National Security Council in May 2018 amid a reorganization of the council by then-National Security Advisor John Bolton. Ziemer’s team was disbanded. Tom Bossert, who as The Washington Post reported, had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks, had been fired one month prior.

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It’s true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

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Legum stated in a follow-up tweet, Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China. That was confirmed in 2018 reports saying that funding for the CDC’s global disease outbreak prevention efforts were cut by 80%, which included the agency’s efforts in China.

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Them's facts.

There's a lot more than that in the Snopes article. How could you possibly come away with only that???

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Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China.

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So he has already cut funding from a directly relevant program.

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It’s true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others,

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So he completely destroyed the team that should be running the show right now.ABE And the result is Worker threw exception | www.rawstory.com | Cloudflare. Of course you'll cry fake. Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

You've never checked any claim.

Hoping that ignoring reality will make it go away,Faith? There's a lot more than that in the Snopes article. How could you possibly come away with only that???

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Trump also cut funding for the CDC, forcing the CDC to cancel its efforts to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics in 39 of 49 countries in 2018. Among the countries abandoned? China.

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So he has already cut funding from a directly relevant program.

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It’s true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others,

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So he completely destroyed the team that should be running the show right now.
And the result is Worker threw exception | www.rawstory.com | Cloudflare. Of course you'll cry fake.

Trump Calls Up Hannity, Tells People With Covid-19 To Go To Work

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In just over two minutes, the so-called president denied the actual death rate of Covid-19, told people who think they may have the virus to go ahead and go to work and compares the virus to the flu, even though he has been told over and over again that it is not at all like the flu.

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"I think the 3.4% number is really a false number." so-called president declares. "Now this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations ... personally, I'd say the number is way under 1%." Of course, this comes from an anti-vaccine, anti-science dotard, so what would any of us actually expect?

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He's actively working against our best interests.

I interpret that quot as telling people to go to work before they recover.

Yeah what the word means just doesn't matter.You're a pip.