Youll hear a lot of political rants about Republicans cutting CDC funding. In fact, the CDC and its sister unit the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ran a budget of $10.791 billion in 2014. The average for the Obama years is $10.823 billion including the stimulus, while the average for George W. Bush ’s second term was $8.721 billion (all-in data are available only as far back as 2003). This year’s CDC budget is a 35.2% increase over a decade ago. Plus, cuts to CDC were the across-the-board budget cuts called sequestration, a plan proposed by the Obama White House and then later approved by Senate Democrats and House Republicans before President Obama signed those cuts into law. Funny how fingers get pointed when bad things happen.
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:53:28 +0000
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