Trump’s budget request for 2021 cuts the budgets for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC by nearly 16%. The CDC is responsible for disease prevention and control in the United States. But Trump isn’t worried about cutting funds to the entity that stops disease prevention because “it will all work out well.” In addition to the cuts being made to the CDC, Trump is also proposing a cut to the global health fund, lowering it from $571 million to $532 million. Short-sighted decisions such as these have many people worried the current administration is crippling the country’s ability to respond to coronavirus. Former Vice President Joe Biden pointed out in a USA Today piece that “diseases do not stop at borders. They cannot be thwarted by building a wall.” https://www.frontpagelive.com/2020/02/07/10-ways-trump-has-left-america-vulnerable-to-the-coronaviruss-health-and-economic-impacts/