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Americans for Prosperity, the Koch dark money pressure group that has spent several hundred million electing Republicans, compiled a list of programs they wanted Congress to cut, which includes CDC funding for global pandemic response & disease prevention documentcloud.org/documents/6810…
In 2018, after increasing the Pentagon's budget that year by $82 billion and just after passing a $1.5 tril tax cut, the Congressional GOP pushed a $15 billion "rescission bill" cutting spending on health programs, including international aid for responding to infectious disease.
President Trump's budget requests repeatedly call for cuts to the CDC & the State Dept's infectious disease response funds. Why? The same cuts were demanded by Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks and Heritage Action, influential right-wing billionaire-backed pressure groups.
Here are some links to the demands by these outside groups: freedomworks.org/content/suppor… americansforprosperity.org/americans-for-… heritageaction.com/key-vote/key-v…
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Biden embraced and praised Modi and made a prominent Modi supporter his campaign’s Muslim outreach coordinator. Weird how there’s virtually no condemnation of Biden & Modi and so much intense vitriol at a congresswoman from a marginalized background.
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The spike in voter turn out in the midterms came almost entirely from moderate suburbs, a trend that continued in the primaries. These voters prioritize a return to civility, normalcy. They don’t see the US as fundamentally corrupt, why would they want an activist president.
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Bloomberg singlehandedly disproving several decades of bullshit lefty postmodern theory about race and identity guiding political choices and confirming that money and class has primacy.
Bloomberg, despite an overtly bigoted stop & frisk & surveillance record, has lined up dozens of the most prominent minority mayors, lawmakers & business leaders, while buying silence from civil rights orgs. If race alone guides politics, not power, how do you explain this?
Ofc identity pol partisans, rather than challenge this w/evidence, revert to racism, attacking my racial authenticity or calling me white. Ok but does that mean Bloomberg's endorsers like Juan Vargas, Greg Meeks, London Breed, Lucy McBath, Fiona Ma are all now white, too? Lol.
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