Trump Steals Healthcare Funds To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich

The mainstream press went with the Trump narrative while reporting that billions of dollars in funding grants were cut. What the press buried was these funds were healthcare dollars stolen by Trump.

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Trump Cuts Billions Of Dollars In Healthcare Funds To States

In a move that was dangerous, illegal, and utterly devoid of common sense, the Trump administration cut tens of billions of dollars in grants to states. While this has become a regular occurrence and legal battle, a sizable portion of the cuts came in funds to track and fight infectious diseases like COVID and bird flu.

The New York Times reported:

The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly canceled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states that were being used for tracking infectious diseases, mental health services, addiction treatment and other urgent health issues.

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In interviews, state health officials predicted that thousands of health department employees and contract workers could lose their jobs nationwide. Some predicted the loss of as much as 90 percent of staff from some infectious disease teams.

“The reality is that, when we take funding away from public health systems, the systems just do not have the capacity, because they’re chronically underfunded over the decades,” said Dr. Umair Shah, who served as Washington State’s health secretary until January.

What is happening that the corporate media won’t discuss is that the Trump administration is stealing money. The money was stolen because Congress appropriated these funds to the states to fight things like infectious diseases, and the grants were illegally canceled.

Trump doesn’t have the authority to cancel these grants.

The most frustrating part of the mainstream media coverage is that the corporate press is leaving out why the grants and others like them are being canceled.

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