Trump administration pushing to block new money for testing, tracing, and CDC in upcoming coronaviru
Source: Washington Post
The Trump administration is trying to block billions of dollars for states to conduct testing and contact tracing in the upcoming coronavirus relief bill, people involved in the talks said Saturday.
The administration is also trying to block billions of dollars that GOP senators want to allocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and billions more for the Pentagon and State Department to address the pandemic at home and abroad, the people said.
The administrations posture has angered some GOP senators, the officials said, and some lawmakers are trying to push back and ensure that the money stays in the bill. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal confidential deliberations, cautioned that the talks were fluid and the numbers were in flux.
The negotiations center around a bill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnnell (R-Ky.) is preparing to unveil this coming week as part of the negotiations with Democrats on what will likely be the last major coronavirus relief bill before the November election.
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"I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down please,' " https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/donald-trump-testing-slow-down-response/index.html
dhill926
(16,337 posts)just outlaw masks nationwide already and get it over with. Then we can storm the white house and drag your orange ass out...
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)The Democrats' campaign ads can just about write themselves, but WTF is Trump trying to do?
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)"If it did slow down, frankly, I think we're way ahead of ourselves if you want to know the truth," Trump said. "We've done too good a job."
"So, instead of 25 million tests, let's say we did 10 million tests. We'd look like we were doing much better because we'd have far fewer cases. You understand that," Trump told CBN.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/donald-trump-testing-slow-down-response/index.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)God help us, he's a moron, and an evil one at that.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)happen at all. They're just 'missing' ...
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)... less timely treatment. All of that increases the death toll, which can't be denied but can be obscured so that trumpanzees aren't reminded of it.
cstanleytech
(26,290 posts)Because it shows his stupidity in calling this a fake virus and literally doing almost nothing to prevent it from coming into the country.
Then when it does come into the country he again screwed up and does not step up as a president should and help contain it which then leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American citizens.
Not to mention that the incompetence he and the other Republicans have displayed has also led to the crashing of the American economy.
Botany
(70,501 posts)End of story.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)RussBLib
(9,008 posts)Oh, my, bring out the hounds!!!
Kaiserguy
(740 posts)and will send a strongly worded letter to Trump shortly.
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)NickB79
(19,236 posts)This is all part of the game plan.
They honestly think they can sweep the pandemic under the rug.
Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)Or maybe he really is stupid enough to believe if you ignore it the virus will go away.