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Sep 24, 2019 MANILA - The Department of Health's budget for next year was cut by P16.6 billion, former health chief and now Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin said Tuesday, amid an outbreak of dengue and measles and the resurgence of polio in the country. 'Every department is supposed to have a 5 to 10 percent increase annually considering the increase in population.
As fears spread about a new coronavirus outbreak growing into a, so did concerns about the readiness of the United States to deal with the virus.Amid a flurry of rumors and news reports, Snopes readers’ attention turned to made by Democratic presidential candidates seeking to unseat U.S. President Donald Trump in 2020. Elizabeth Warren, former U.S. This is not the first time Trump’s administration has proposed cuts to the CDC budget. However, such proposals do not always amount to funds lost. As The Associated Press on Feb. 26, 2020:Trump’s budgets have proposed cuts to public health, only to be overruled by Congress, where there’s strong bipartisan support for agencies such as the CDC and NIH.
Instead, financing has increased.Indeed, the money that government disease detectives first tapped to fight the latest outbreak was a congressional fund created for health emergencies.Some public health experts say a bigger concern than White House budgets is the steady erosion of a CDC grant program for state and local public health emergency preparedness — the front lines in detecting and battling new disease. But that decline was set in motion by a congressional budget measure that predates Trump.It is also true that in 2018 the Trump administration connected to the U.S. Pandemic response, and they were not replaced.Also in 2018, news circulated about an 80% reduction in the CDC’s program that worked in various countries to fight epidemics. That was the result of the anticipated depletion of previously allotted funding. But those budget cuts ultimately didn’t happen, CDC told, because Congress provided other funding.
For fiscal year, President Trump has requested that CDC funding for global disease detection and other programs be increased further — to $225 million total, with $175 million going directly to global health security.”The fact that epidemic prevention-efforts were scaled back in China gained new significance in February 2020 as coronavirus spread globally after it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.U.S. Legislators in late February were billions of dollars in funding for coronavirus response.
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