By now you've probably heard about how, for months, Trump failed to take the coronavirus threat seriously.
Here are 5 things you may not know about Trump’s botched response:
Here are 5 things you may not know about Trump’s botched response:
1) In early 2018, the Trump administration cut CDC efforts to curb the spread of infectious-disease epidemics by 80%.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/02/01/cdc-to-cut-by-80-percent-efforts-to-prevent-global-disease-outbreak/
2) Trump's administration is preventing Americans from receiving aid if their spouses don't have a Social Security number.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-20/u-s-citizens-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-spouses-immigrants
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-20/u-s-citizens-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-spouses-immigrants
3) Trump's "testing czar" was pushed out of his last job because he focused more on self-promotion than getting the job done.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brett-giroir-trumps-testing-czar-was-forced-out-of-a-job-developing-vaccine-projects-now-hes-on-the-hot-seat/2020/04/19/b061b968-7e89-11ea-8de7-9fdff6d5d83e_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brett-giroir-trumps-testing-czar-was-forced-out-of-a-job-developing-vaccine-projects-now-hes-on-the-hot-seat/2020/04/19/b061b968-7e89-11ea-8de7-9fdff6d5d83e_story.html
4) Trump tried to blame the World Health Org for his initial denial of the crisis, pretending the WHO "covered up" info that the virus was spreading. But Trump's administration had 17 staffers embedded in the WHO who relayed info in real time to the WH
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-at-world-health-organization-transmitted-real-time-information-about-coronavirus-to-trump-administration/2020/04/19/951c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/americans-at-world-health-organization-transmitted-real-time-information-about-coronavirus-to-trump-administration/2020/04/19/951c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html
5) The coronavirus stimulus package Trump signed contains a massive tax giveaway for millionaires that was added by Senate Republicans
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/tax-change-coronavirus-stimulus-act-millionaires-billionaires
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/15/tax-change-coronavirus-stimulus-act-millionaires-billionaires