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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Why should Biden have to do better than Trump...wasn't Trump the best president since Lincoln? But if I am pressed for an answer...let me think for a second:
Ahh...I got it:
I bet Biden will create a pandemic agency, with an office right in the White House, whose job would be to try and deal in a more timely manner with the NEXT worldwide pandemic that might come our way. You know...kind of the same office that Obama had set up...which Trump saw fit to dismantle right after assuming the presidency, because he was such a "sharp businessman".
But I can guess what the next question will be: "What difference could such an agency make?"
Gee...I don't know. It might save a few thousand American lives?
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Gee...how about the whole truth of the matter? It would behoove you to pay attention to the details and opine accordingly.
Fact check: White House didn't fire pandemic response unit when it was disbanded in 2018
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In May 2018, former national security adviser John Bolton restructured Trump's National Security Council and disbanded the global health unit.
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He also said that the reorganization of the NSC was necessary after the "bloat that occurred" under Obama, when the staff quadrupled to nearly 400 – a figure that even members of the Obama administration agreed was too large.
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