Healthcare

Judge Strikes Down Trump Plan To End Food Stamps For 700,000 Unemployed Americans

The Trump Administration’s cruel rule to take food assistance away from hundreds of thousands of Americans was scheduled to go into effect on April 1, 2020.  A court injunction in late March halted it temporarily as reported by Smart Dissent here

Now in mid-October 2020, a Federal judge just blocked the effort entirely, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”

Trump Officials Stole $300,000,000 From The CDC To Fund Propaganda

$300,000,000 of OUR tax dollars have been stolen from the Center for Disease Control in the midst of a horrific pandemic to aid Trump's reelection.

The health department is moving quickly on a highly unusual advertising campaign to "defeat despair" about the coronavirus, a $300 million-plus effort that was shaped by a political appointee close to Trump and executed in part by close allies of the official, using taxpayer funds.

Pentagon Used Funds For Masks & Swabs On Jet Engines & Body Armor

The Pentagon stole $1 billion dollars from COVID-19 response to fund their favorite defense contractors on various projects at a time when the Department of Defense already has an all-time record high budget.

A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used to make things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms.

White House Blocked Postal Service From Sending Masks To Every Home

The USPS had a plan to send 5 reusable facemasks to every household in early April. Even had a press release ready.  The White House blocked the plan.

Nearly 10,000 pages of emails, memos and other private documents offered new details about the agency’s struggles and the pro-Trump figures to whom it turned for advice.... The records also offer fresh detail about the Postal Service’s precarious position in the White House’s early pandemic response.

Trump Officials Interfering with CDC's Vital COVID-19 Reports

Trump's Health and Human Science Department is censoring our CDC for unflattering SCIENCE. 

The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) are the most holy epidemiology texts.  Because it is published by the CDC, the Trump administration thinks it should be able to censor international researchers who publish there to promote its political agenda.

Trump's Republican Admin Will Not Join Global Effort to Develop And Distribute COVID-19 Vaccine

As Trump continues to ignore the COVID-19 global pandemic, the rest of the world is taking action.

The Trump administration said it will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine.... a decision that could shape the course of the pandemic....

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