More evidence that Obama reduced pandemic preparedness budgets From US News: The Obama administration requested a number of funding cuts to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) which diminished the amount of personal protective equipment and other necessary medical supplies kept in the event of a pandemic or natural or man-made disaster, show records reviewed by Fox News. The story: The Obama administration first made the requests in its 2011 budget, which reads: “CDC requests $523,533,000 for the Strategic National Stockpile in FY 2011, a decrease of $72,216,000 below the FY 2010 Omnibus.” But the document also shows that an additional $68,515,000 would later be appropriated to the SNS from the 2009 budget to fight the swine flu pandemic that year, which brings the total to $592,048,000 to the 2011 SNS budget, which is only several million dollars less than its budget the year before. A campaign adviser for former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that the 2011 budget cuts were less than 1% from the SNS’s 2010 budget. The Obama administration also requested a reduction of $47.572 million to the SNS in fiscal 2013; $38.190 million in fiscal 2014, and a small, several million dollar cut in 2015. But Biden’s campaign explained to Fox News that the budget cut requests were influenced by the Republican-pushed Budget Control Act of 2011, which called for the formation of the “super committee” the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to manage cuts in the federal budget in response to the 2011 debt ceiling crisis. Obama’s requests for budget cuts to the SNS also cite the Budget Control Act. The 2013 budget argues that the “current fiscal climate necessitates scaling back” despite the SNS being a “key resource.” The fiscal 2015 budget states: “CDC has always sought to maximize the effectiveness of resources and investments, and is even more focused on doing so in the current fiscal environment.” https://newspushed.com/more-evidence-that-obama-reduced-pandemic-preparedness-budgets/