Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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    Gutting it again. Trump killed the pandemic response team in his first term.

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      The first time he pulled any funding the US had for foreign pandemic prevention because Republicans don’t see the point of spending money on another person. Just a year and a half before COVID started actually. Because they know better than anyone else that infections unlike illegal aliens respect international boarders and an endemic in Asia can never become a global pandemic that reaches American shores. That’s obviously antifa propaganda.

      /S incase it wasn’t obvious enough