We’re used to hearing rants when they get the percentage raise in a government body budget (e.g., some govt budget only gets a 3% raise instead of the 5% proposed one). They holler, “CUT! CUT!, they CUT my budget!”
Even as in absolute and real terms, they got (or will get) more than they had before. To wit (reformatted, emphasis mine):
No, the CDC’s Budget Hasn’t Been Cut
During Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, several candidates—including former Vice President Joe Biden, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.)—accused the Trump administration of cutting key funding from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that impaired America’s readiness for a pandemic.
…but this attack is inaccurate. Trump has proposed budget cuts for the CDC in each of his budgets since taking office, but Congress never approved those proposals. Trump’s most recent budget plan calls for a 16 percent cut to the CDC, but that budget has yet to be approved by Congress. It’s fair to say Trump has tried to defund the CDC, but it’s inaccurate to say that he has succeeded—or that those fictitious cuts have affected the agency’s ability to respond to COVID-19.
That’s just from Reason; I have more tabs somewhere in here so I’ll update this as I find them (again). But the reason piece has something in it that most other sources knocking down the Democrats and Never Trumpers argument that Trump is at fault – a reason that, again, shows the difference between our modern politicians that believes we need permanent “capability” all the time even if it isn’t used very often or that of a business-oriented person that understands “just in time” orientation:
“I’m a businessperson. I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them,” said Trump. “When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.”
Indeed, that’s a good way for the government to operate.
Agreed. The longest-lived entity is a Govt program that has outlived its original purpose – you can never kill it. Meanwhile, businesses that had that mentality are already in history’s dustbin. Why pay for something when it is rarely used but there are always available resources “out there” to solve a given problem?
