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WASHINGTON
— Recent attacks by a Democratic outside group blame congressional
Republicans for exacerbating the Ebola epidemic by continuously seeking
to cut funds for government health agencies.
But the charge leaves out a critical point. President Barack Obama
hasn’t been consistent on funding the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the dominant U.S. public health agency combating the
outbreak. In some years, he’s been a budgetary champion for the CDC. In
other years, he’s bowed to austerity.
During Obama’s first three years in the White House, the CDC’s total
funding increased from $6.64 billion to $7.16 billion, according to
figures provided by the administration. Those funding levels were all
higher than what was in place at the end of the Bush years.
After the GOP took control of the House in 2011, the administration
protected CDC funding by relying on new funding streams from the
Affordable Care Act. But the CDC’s total budget fell by $430 million in
fiscal year 2013, and the president can’t blame Republicans for the
drop. The president’s funding requests for the CDC dropped too.
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