For John, BLUF: But, at the end of the day, as Mr George Anthes says (on the City Life Show), the responsibility falls mostly on the individual States. Nothing to see here; just move along.
From PJ Media, by Mr Matt Margolis, 30 March 202.
Here is the lede plus three:
Joe Biden has made pandemic preparedness a theme of his attacks on President Trump in recent weeks.But, that isn't the whole of the story. From the Just the News webpage we have an article by Ms Christine Dolan, from 31 March 2020, headlined "How Obama’s failure to resupply respirators in federal stockpile created a 2020 crisis".But, according to analysis from Gregg Re at Fox News, the Obama-Biden administration repeatedly sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "seemingly undercutting former Vice President Joe Biden's repeated attacks on the Trump White House for its pandemic preparedness."
The budget requests are available online via the CDC website.
On many occasions, Democrats, including Biden, have falsely accused President Trump of slashing the CDC's budget. Biden has used these false claims to suggest that he would never even propose similar cuts, let alone make them. Fact checks from the Associated Press and FactCheck.org both proved the claims made by Biden and others to be wrong, because CDC funding actually increased during the Trump administration.
The sub-headline is "The stockpile's 100 million supply of N95 respirator masks was never fully replenished after 2009 swine flu pandemic, experts say."
Yes, the current Administration is behind and playing catchup. Yes, the current Administration should have refilled the national stockpiles immediately. But, there is only so much that can be done at any one time. They guessed wrong about the biggest threat, or by actions deterred the biggest threat and thus this came to the fore.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
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