Here's some for you to consider

Posted on: February 25, 2020 at 16:48:54 CT

In 2018, the CDC cut 80% of its efforts to prevent global disease outbreaks because it was running out of money. Ultimately, the department went from working in 49 countries to just ten.

Shutting down the entire global health security unit of the National Security Council.

Eliminating the US government's $30-million Complex Crises Fund.

Reducing national health spending by $15 billion.

Trump shut down a federal program called Predict that was established ten years ago as a response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreaks. Predict investigated and provided surveillance of infectious diseases and viruses, studied and discovered new diseases that are able to jump from animals to humans, developed testing to detect these viruses, and trained “medical detectives” on the ground across the globe. This federal ability to avert pandemics is now mostly gone, making our ability to contain diseases worldwide significantly more difficult.

Cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS