December 2017: The Trump administration reportedly bans the CDC from using the terms “evidence-based” and “science-based.”
February 9, 2018: President Trump signs bill that cuts $1.35 billion in funding for Prevention and Public Health Fund at the CDC.

May 15, 2018: Two members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee write to John Bolton, President Trump’s National Security Advisor, to express their concern over the recent actions “taken to downgrade the importance of global health security.”

September 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services diverts funding from the CDC to pay for housing detained immigrant children.
The same month: The Trump administration fails to follow through with an Obama-era project designed to protect against medical supply shortages