The Trump administration confirmed it's reviewing whether to pull $590 million in funding that Moderna received in the final days of the Biden administration to develop an mRNA vaccine for bird flu in people.
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Every policy and statement that Trump has ever done/said concerning infectious diseases has made them worse. There’s never been a more self destructive germaphobe.
It's not like they can say it's not real. More than a million birds have been culled within 30 miles of my home with farm workers being hospitalized from the bird flu
trump, in addition to being a 34 count felon, rapist, racist, thieving pos, is also enough of a murderous bastard to celebrate the unnecessary deaths of Americans. 1.2 million in the first round…
This is what behooves me.. MAGA has been indoctrinated to hate any and everybody who is different from their definition of pure. However, they are being affected in the same way as those who they view as impure. Yet, they still embrace their purity as dominate. YOU CAN DIE TO FOR THE SAME REASON!!!
Trump wants revenge. He said it repeatedly, if you hadn’t already noticed how vindictive he is. JFK Jr is a broken thug who hungered to feel the political power of his father, and two uncles. Both are sexual predators. Both feel nothing for anyone but themselves. Many will die They will celebrate.
Some people truly need this to live. Immunocompromised people will die. This is a death sentence not a budget decision. How much did he make from Trump meme coin? Who will stop this?
I know funding is supposed to be in stages to guarantee work / product is produced, but couldn’t this one have been paid out in full in advance. We all knew the new administration would not support vaccines.
One of my main complaints is that not enough was done to mitigate Trump 2.0. Firewall the IG's, spend the allocated funds for public health/safety, and protect the USPS/Federal Civil Service are just a few.
I forgot you mentioned USPS, an institution that’s mandated by the US Constitution. Don was going to subsume it into another department & backed off of that really quickly. It’s a very hard place to make changes. Biden tried to fire DeJoy: a Pres. can’t fire the USPS head; only the postal Board can🧵
Biden spent four years trying to get rid of board members and replace them with people he thought were loyal list, but when they would take a vote, they never had the votes to get Louis DeJoy ousted. Biden follows the rules. Dan doesn’t. Even so, I feel there’s some built-in protections there.
I'm familiar. Is still could have been done with more urgency. I blame Schumer, and the Dem leadership for not pushing through Biden's USPS Board of Governors nominees in a timely manner so that a board vote could remove DeJoy.
Dems were following the rules that the GOP has long since abandoned.
I don’t think anybody forsaw the firing of the IG’s. At least all the pundits I saw seemed really thrown. That position was created after Nixon to prevent another Nixon and no one thought he’d do something so brazen & not with a detailed reason & 30 days notice. Don was impeached for freezing 🧵
military funding to Ukraine cuz that was money allocated & budgeted & made into law by Congress. Yes, we knew Don was going to slash & burn future budgets. No one saw him freezing all fed funding, what got him impeached once on a large scale. I worried about FEMA funds for CA fires as new funding.
I also think no one forsaw how spineless GOP in Congress have been, as Don is undoing their work. Instead of standing up & saying, you have no right to delete a budget passed by Congress, who pet the Constitution has the power of the purse. Instead they beg Don to make exceptions for their states.
So glad Biden waited until the last possible minute to do this instead of getting this started earlier. Now there's no progress AND the funding will be clawed back.
A truly asinine and evil move. But Trump Admin/DOGE are looking for enough cuts to make so that they can reach their $2 trillion target and make their desired $4+ trillion tax cuts more palatable.
I am sure Kennedy is all over this... once he finishes telling us that the first measle death in this country in 10 years "happens all the time, very common"
So Biden helped us fight covid. While Trump and his people will quietly(as he did during Covid) get vaccinated, Trump will say through Kennedy that the shot is not needed. Many will die. Is this what you voted for?
I hope Moderna is already far enough in already to finish development without the US funding. And Moderna, if you’re listening, I’d be happy to take the jab early as part of your trial.
Not meaning to be callous, but I suggest saving enough for a plane ticket and paying for a jab elsewhere, if the other countries will let you have it before their own citizens. I know a few Canadians who travelled to the US when it made the COVID available vaccine first.
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Why does every decision seem to be whatever hurts our people or our economy worse is the path that Trump and the GOP chooses for us??
One of my main complaints is that not enough was done to mitigate Trump 2.0. Firewall the IG's, spend the allocated funds for public health/safety, and protect the USPS/Federal Civil Service are just a few.
We all knew this was coming.
Dems were following the rules that the GOP has long since abandoned.
🫶 from across the pond 💙
Countries also have Universal Healthcare…
Your suggestion is not just callous, it is nonsensical.
Get your mind framed. This is no longer the US of beforetimes.
We're listing probable options.
Which was idiotic.