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Why should someone up for a job at the center for disease control be asked if they support the president’s agenda?

Should the military budget be exempt from cutbacks?

They can simply be asked if they support his agenda. There is no need for any other question. That is, if they are qualified. In that case hire them.

What does that mission have to do with supporting the president’s agenda?

Another immigration policy win for Trump administration: this time on sanctuary cities

This time, a federal appeals court in New York has ruled that the government can hold back millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to sanctuary cities and states that protect illegal immigrants and decline to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The decision upends previous, lower court rulings that said the Trump administration cannot withhold federal tax money from New York City, New York State, and six other states.

The other states are: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Virginia and Washington.

Couple questions for CJ and the other supporters of Trump here...

Which do you consider a more important requirement when key people in homeland security or agencies like CDC are put into place - subject matter expertise and competence, or loyalty and faithfulness to Donald Trump?

Trump’s administration has been cutting funding to the CDC. Do you think it would be a good idea to restore and increase that funding now, or do you think that the CDC is not all that crucial and the funding would be better spent on things like the border wall?

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What does that mission have to do with supporting the president’s agenda?

Nothing, you are the one saying it does. You have conflated the two.

DON’T think it’s important whether or not a person who comes to work for the CDC is loyal to the president?

How could someone working at the CDC possibly affect the president’s agenda?

How does it harm his political future?

You are disingenuous.

At Trump’s Coronavirus press briefing, he claimed “a vaccine is close “, both before and after Dr Fauci the immunologist clearly stated that a vaccine is at least a year and a half away.

Hes's proceeding in line with Bannon's theory of messaging, "flood the zone with bullshit".

Steven Greenhouse
@greenhousenyt
Trump's budget calls for a $3 billion cut in global health programs & a 53% cut in funding for the World Health Organization. His earlier cuts forced the Centers for Disease Control to downsize its global health security initiative in 39 of 49 countries.