I see the Rs got their central committee talking points today that Ds, and anyone protesting the admin, are antifa, Hamas, and Marxists. Wouldn’t it be nice if they spoke with some originality?
How many years is it going to take when we can get back to recognizing the humanity in our political opponents? The politics of destroy are destroying our nation.
Why does he think that only Republicans fought the Nazis? The fight against the Nazis was led by Democratic presidents: both FDR and Harry S Truman. And the blood shed on the battlefield was both Republican and Democratic.
$40 billion is 40 times the CDC budget for HIV prevention in the US. How is it “America First” to cut all domestic HIV prevention at CDC but bailout Argentina 40 times over the HIV prevention budget?
They are planning more RIFs once the FY26 budget is finally funded - no more international vaccines, no more domestic HIV program, etc. So CDC will functionally be half of what it was on Jan 19, 2025 but the administration will merge ASPR into CDC so overall # of employees will look stable.
Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
The administration just cut the IRB at CDC. How does research proceed without an IRB? What happens to ongoing studies? Suppose there is significant complication for a patient, or malfeasance identified, who is that reported to? Who ensures that research is done safely and ethically?
Agreed- if CDC was given time, and an opportunity for thoughtful reflection and engagement by employees, significant savings could have been identified that would not have jeopardized health and safety of Americans. The indiscriminate firings by DOGE and Vought will result in long term harm to USA.
The only way they can win is through disenfranchisement of their voters. This is the most anti democratic, authoritarian government this country has seen since 1776.
At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.
Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.
Calling another head of state a “beautiful young woman” is basically what I expect of a geriatric patriarchal politician. We can just be glad he did not try to grab her.
