Oops! Guess Who REALLY Tried to Cut Spending at the CDC
October 14, 2014 By Matthew Burke
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/10/14/oops-guess-who-really-tried-to-cut-spending-at-the-cdc/
With the midterm elections forthcoming, Democrats have been desperately grasping at straws, blaming Republicans for the spreading of the deadly East African Ebola virus. According to this latest attempt to, as Rahm Emanuel used to say, “never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Democrats are accusing Republicans of cutting spending at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), stating that a cure for the disease would have been found if not for those supposed cuts.
Not only did the CDC budget not get cut this year, but it actually grew at a high rate, and unbelievably, it was actually Democrat Barack Obama, not the Republican Party, who tried to cut funding to the government agency, so they might want to edit their new “Republican cuts kill” campaign ad.
For fiscal year 2014, the CDC budget grew by 8.2%, to $6.9 billion, which is $567 million MORE than 2013, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported in an article titled, CDC Wins in Budget Deal (emphasis added):
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will see an 8.2 percent budget increase for fiscal 2014, thanks to a $1.1 trillion spending bill announced by Congress Jan. 13. This influx of cash will raise the CDC budget to $6.9 billion, which is $567 million more than it received in 2013. This is more than the agency anticipated, because the president’s fiscal year 2014 budget request for it was just $6.6 billion — a decrease of $270 million from fiscal 2012.
Ebola was discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, so the deadly virus is nothing new. Maybe the government could have researched and produced a vaccine for Ebola if the research wasn’t redirected towards projects like drunken monkeys and why lesbians are fat.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is currently blasting out ads accusing Republicans of voting to cut CDC’s Ebola-fighting capabilities in February 2011 by voting for a bill to cut $60 billion from the federal budget, including from the CDC, in anticipation of the fiscal year 2012 budget battle. The House passed the bill on Feb. 19, 2011, but the bill never passed the Senate. But the Obama administration proposed to cut CDC funding, including for public health preparedness and response, in its very own budget proposal released the very same week as the House vote. Obama’s original budget plan for fiscal year 2012 cut funding for a CDC public health emergency preparedness program by $72 million. The proposed cuts would have taken money away from municipal and state health departments to hire health workers and monitor for public health hazards and disease outbreaks.??
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