[新聞] 歐巴馬任內曾大砍CDC預算
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The Obama administration repeatedly sought to cut hundreds of millions of
dollars in funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
yearly budget requests show -- seemingly undercutting former Vice President
Joe Biden's repeated attacks on the Trump White House for its pandemic
preparedness.
Numerous Democrats, including Biden, have falsely claimed that Trump slashed
the CDC budget, and Biden has suggested that he would never pursue similar
cuts. The Associated Press has noted that those claims "distort" the facts,
with FactCheck.org pointing out that CDC funding has actually increased under
the current administration, largely because Congress insisted on maintaining
funding levels for both CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Nevertheless, speaking to ABC News' “This Week” on March 1, Biden claimed:
“They’ve cut the funding for the CDC.” On Friday, Biden stepped up his
attacks, writing on Twitter: "Donald Trump's careless, shortsighted actions
left our nation ill-prepared and now Americans are paying the price."
In its fiscal year 2013 budget, while Biden was vice president, the Obama
administration sought a total funding level of $5.9 billion from the CDC, or
a $569 million cut from the 2012 budget of $6.46 billion. In fiscal year
2015, the Obama administration wanted a $414 million cut year-over-year, and
again in the fiscal year 2017 budget, the Obama administration looked to
eliminate $251 million in CDC funding.
The proposed cuts take into account money budgeted for The Prevention and
Public Health Fund, which was established under the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act of 2010 to bolster the nation's health care system. When
not including that fund, the Obama administration sought CDC cuts in five of
its eight years.
Some of the Obama administration's cuts specifically took aim at the CDC's
preparedness initiatives.
“Now, President Obama’s 2012 budget calls for paring some of that spending.
Funding for a public health emergency preparedness program run by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention was cut by about $72 million below fiscal
2010 levels in the budget proposal.” The Wall Street Journal reported in
2012.
Those cuts would later intensify. “The US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) takes a hit of about $270 million in the Obama
administration's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget, including significant cuts
to biodefense and emergency preparedness programs," according to a 2013 post
from the Center For Infectious Disease Research And Policy.
US WAS BEST-PREPARED COUNTRY IN WORLD TO HANDLE PANDEMICS, JOHNS HOPKINS FOUND
Then, in 2015, President Obama called for $50 million in budget cuts amid a
measles outbreak -- and White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest's claims
that ObamaCare would pick up the slack were rated false by The Washington
Post's fact-checker.
“Chipping away at 317 funds — even if the majority of cuts are going toward
vaccine purchases — jeopardizes the immunization system in general,
public-health officials and advocates say. It restricts the ability of local
public health departments to prepare for and respond to outbreaks and educate
providers, Chris Aldridge, senior director for infectious disease at the
National Association of County and City Health Officials, told The Washington
Post in 2015.
During the current coronavirus pandemic, money that government disease
detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund
created for health emergencies. Congress, which has strongly supported the
CDC and NIH, rejected a Trump administration budget that might have cut their
funding.
BIDEN'S CORONAVIRUS PRESS BLITZ MARRED BY DISTRACTING GAFFES
While some public health experts have said a bigger concern than White House
budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local
public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and
battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional
budget measure that predates Trump.
“The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past,” said
John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health,
which works with government at all levels to improve the nation’s response
to high-risk health crises. Some Democrats have charged that Trump decimated
the nation’s public health leadership, but Auerbach said CDC’s top
scientific ranks have remained stable the past three years.
And, it emerged this week United States was ranked the best-prepared country
in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) --
an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump
administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus
outbreak.
The Global Health Security Index was "developed with guidance from an
international panel of experts from 13 countries, with research by the
Economist Intelligence Unit" from 2018 to 2019, The Washington Post reported
last year. "More than 100 researchers spent a year collecting and validating
publicly available data.”
At the same time, the paper noted that the U.S. score was still not perfect,
and that "factors driving down the U.S. score include the risks of social
unrest and terrorism, and low public confidence in government."
SEE THE FULL 2019 GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY INDEX RANKINGS
Trump's campaign has argued in recent days that misinformation may be one of
the leading causes of that lack of confidence. For example, Trump's team has
pointed to Biden's claims that "no one on the National Security Council staff
was put in charge" of pandemic preparedness, based on a report that in May
2018, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton eliminated the NSC’s Office
of Global Health Security and Biodefense in a reorganization effort.
Rear Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer reportedly was ousted as senior director, and no
replacement was named. But, FactCheck.org has determined that the matter
amounted to a reorganization, and that “some team members [of the NSC
pandemic office] were shifted to other groups, and others took over some of
[the top official’s] duties.”
Separately, the Biden team has repeatedly argued that the president once
referred to coronavirus as a "hoax." That claim has been refuted by numerous
fact-checkers, including the Post's, which found that Trump was clearly
referring to Democrats' efforts to blame him for the pandemic, not the virus
itself. Biden's advisors nonetheless were repeating the claim on Friday.
Further, a recent report by Reuters that the U.S. had recently terminated a
CDC position in China was widely cited by Democrats and reporters as evidence
of a lack of preparedness, and formed the basis for a reporter's question at
a recent White House coronavirus briefing.
But, the article itself made clear that experts didn't think the move had
anything to do with the spread of coronavirus in the United States.
"One disease expert told Reuters he was skeptical that the U.S. resident
adviser would have been able to get earlier or better information to the
Trump administration, given the Chinese government’s suppression of
information," the outlet noted.
“In the end, based on circumstances in China, it probably wouldn’t have
made a big difference,” former CDC epidemiologist and Emory University
professor Scott McNabb told Reuters.
“The problem was how the Chinese handled it," McNabb continued. "What should
have changed was the Chinese should have acknowledged it earlier and didn’t.
”
4.附註、心得、想法︰
簡單說,就是拜登指控川普砍CDC預算導致防疫不力
但FactCheck.org這個網站調查發現
實際上川普執政下CDC的預算是有被國會加回去的
真正砍CDC預算的是誰???就是歐巴馬
(拜登那時可是副總統)
歐巴馬在2013財政年度給CDC砍了5.69億美元
2015財政年度預算中,砍4.14億美元
2017財政年度預算??2.51億美元
老美原來也擅長帶風向~~
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