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Trump team weighs a CDC scrubbing to deflect mounting criticism
With Trump under fire for his handling of the outbreak, his advisers are eyeing the federal bureaucracy for other culprits ahead of the election.
By NANCY COOK and ADAM CANCRYN
06/23/2020 04:30 AM EDT
White House officials are putting a target on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, positioning the agency as a coronavirus scapegoat as cases surge in many states and the U.S. falls behind other nations that are taming the pandemic.
Trump administration aides in recent weeks have seriously discussed launching an in-depth evaluation of the agency to chart what they view as its missteps in responding to the pandemic including an early failure to deploy working test kits, according to four senior administration officials. Part of that audit would include examining more closely the state-by-state death toll to tally only the Americans who died directly of Covid-19 rather than other factors. About 120,000 people in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus so far, according to the CDCs official count.
Aides have also discussed narrowing the mission of the agency or trying to embed more political appointees within it, according to interviews with 10 current and former senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House. One official said the overall goal would be to make the CDC nimble and more responsive.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-cdc-overhaul-coronavirus-335039
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Trump team weighs a CDC scrubbing to deflect mounting criticism (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2020
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gab13by13
(21,337 posts)1. Jared can run 1 more department.
sop
(10,177 posts)2. Make the "CDC nimble and more responsive" whenever Trump requires a bit of ass-kissing.
Fauci and Birx just weren't sufficiently obsequious to suit Trump, more Americans must be sacrificed to soothe his fragile psyche.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)3. I am so sick of this shit. nt
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)4. In the Soviet Union all government offices and military units
had "political officers" who served as the eyes and ears of the Communist Party and enforced loyalty to its policies.