Trump accused of not using $14bn for coronavirus testing and contact tracing
Source: Independent
Trump accused of not using $14bn for coronavirus testing and contact tracing
This administration will put our country at grave risk if it tries to declare an early victory, senators Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray claim
James Crump
@thejamescrump
1 hour ago
The Trump administration has still not used $14bn (£11.2bn) in funding for coronavirus contact test and tracing, according to senior Democrats. In April, as part of a coronavirus relief bill, Congress passed legislation that awarded $25bn (£20bn) in funding for Covid-19 tracing and surveillance, split between the administration and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to NBC.
In a letter to Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar, on Sunday, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and senator Patty Murray, claimed that president Donald Trump had still not used more than half of the funds. The senators claimed that the Trump administration has failed to disburse $8bn (£6.42bn), the CDC has not used $4bn (£3.2bn), and an extra $2bn (£1.6bn) has not been allocated by the administration for free testing for uninsured US citizens.
While it has been months since these funds were first appropriated, the Administration has failed to disburse significant amounts of this funding, the Democratic senators wrote on Sunday.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-testing-money-contact-tracing-cdc-funding-a9579451.html
bullimiami
(13,104 posts)House should hold an impeachment hearing every monday on one topic.
Vote that night.
Send the article to the Senate.
My article for next week. "Slowing down testing". Guilty.
erronis
(15,328 posts)except for trying to load up the "impartial" judiciary.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)all Democrats in Congress to file impeachment charges.
Don't plan on Republicans to accept election results.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)while Republicans find efficiencies to save money.
erronis
(15,328 posts)congress (the House) having any knowledge.
Lock him up.
(6,941 posts)$500,000,000 already charged on our cc to bail out his golf courses and resorts?
Lock him up.
Like you say he will give it to friends, family,his campaign and himself. I think all those masks that were confiscated earlier in first months of the outbreak were going to be used for his rallies.
Hotler
(11,445 posts)dem4evah
(75 posts)Last edited Mon Jun 22, 2020, 05:50 PM - Edit history (1)
Most of it will end up right back in the REPUKES pockets as usual. There will be books, movies, documentaries and master's thesis papers on the grifting and corruption in this administration for the next 30 years or more. It's absolutely disgusting beyond belief.
Botany
(70,582 posts)Trump should lose every state by double digits
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)We would be fine if we had just done what South Korea did. They controlled the outbreak without shutting down their economy, without closing factories and restaurants. How? Mass testing, contacting tracing and targeted quarantining of the ill. And universal mask wearing. It's not rocket science. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/26/821688981/how-south-korea-reigned-in-the-outbreak-without-shutting-everything-down Not only did their testing program save their economy, it saved lives. They've lost only 280 people, we've lost 120,000, and we're still losing thousands every few days. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/ Granted we have 6.5 times the population of South Korea, but if we had done what they did, we'd have lost only about 6.5×280 or about 1,820 people, and our economy would not be in tatters.
Botany
(70,582 posts)... what did they do? They looked to make money off of it.
FM123
(10,054 posts)What did he do with the other $8 billion - buy another portrait of himself?
rickford66
(5,528 posts)Larry Moecurley
(72 posts)Always has, always will.
zaj
(3,433 posts)Response to zaj (Reply #13)
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zaj
(3,433 posts)Headline:
"Trump accused of not using $14bn for coronavirus testing and contact tracing"
--- Not a fact.... uncertain if even true, possibly just partisans attacking Trump... definately bothsides-erism going on
Story:
"The Trump administration has still not used $14bn in funding for coronavirus"
--- It's a Fact.
Response to zaj (Reply #22)
geralmar This message was self-deleted by its author.
zaj
(3,433 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)maxrandb
(15,355 posts)Hotler
(11,445 posts)there was no REAL meaningful and fail safe oversight. They handed out the money, turned the lights out and left town.
Karma13612
(4,554 posts)How nice of him to be so frugal with American tax payers money.
In the mean time, hes got thousands of hydroxychloroquine tablets that should be gotten to people with malaria, lupus and RA.
My gawd, what a piece of work this criminal-in-chief is.