Don’t believe the fake news

But here's the reality: the CDC's budget is now more than 7 percent larger than it was under President Obama's last two budgets. That is, the actual enacted program budgets for the CDC in 2016 and 2017 were both under $7.2 billion, but for 2020 the budget Congress adopted for it is nearly $7.7 billion.

So when bullshiters tell you the budget was cut just laugh.

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SomeMichGuy · M

I looked at the CDC's budget request factsheet here: https://www.cdc.gov/budget/documents/fy2020/cdc-overview-factsheet.pdf

Before whatever additional money was approved during the pandemic funding, this doc shows declining funding

FY 2018 7.825 G$
FY 2019 7.283 G$
FY 2020 6.594 G$ [but bar graph shows 6.531 G$?]

with the lattermost number being in the request submitted by Trump in his budget proposal which begins the budget process.

AnneHoney · 36-40, F

Their budget went up every year. Stop misrepresenting by talking about initial proposals.@SomeMichGuy