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mask online, CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE They couldn’t address the coronavirus because Pelosi and Schumer shut down the Congress. They don't want to talk about that, do they? Levin then shifted his focus to the 2020 Democratic field. The Democrats, they go to the microphone and they attack. They don't know anything, he said. What is their plan? What is the Schumer-Pelosi-[Bernie] Sanders - [Amy] Klobuchar- [Michael] Bloomberg whatever plans? They have great plans for containment. Open borders, eliminate ICE, no vetting of foreigners, sanctuary cities, nationalize and destroy the greatest healthcare system, destroy our pharmaceutical companies ... that will come up with the solutions?
mask online - The president credits his administration for being on top of the outbreak early on; Kristin Fisher reports from the White House. The Associated Press is calling out two leading Democratic presidential candidates for what the outlet says were inaccurate comments about the government's ability to address diseases like the coronavirus. Former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg were both wrong to say critical health agencies faced funding cuts. While discussing the coronavirus during Tuesday's debate, those candidates blamed President Trump for restricting resources for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
mask online, “There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he’s defunded — he’s defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need. This is a very serious thing, Bloomberg said. Biden similarly indicated Trump reversed the Obama-Biden administration's budget increases to those agencies. CORONAVIRUS GETS POLITICAL: TRUMP, DEMS EXCHANGE BARBS AS US PREPARES FOR POTENTIAL CRISIS “We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget. ... He’s wiped all that out. ... He cut the funding for the entire effort, he said.
mask online - But according to the AP, Trump's proposed budget cuts never went into effect. Funding to fight the latest outbreak also came from 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.
mask online - The broader point about there being “nobody here” to coordinate the response sells short what’s in place to handle an outbreak. Biden's and Bloomberg's campaigns didn't immediately respond to Fox News' requests for comment. VARNEY: DEMS 'DRUMMING UP PANIC' ABOUT CORONAVIRUS, DRIVING DOWN MARKETS The fact check came as the administration criticized Democrats over their handling of the issue. During a press conference on Wednesday, Trump derided House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., over the issue.