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Mon Jan 27, 2020, 02:59 PM Jan 2020

Biden: Trump has left US unprepared to respond to epidemic

Former Vice President Joe Biden wrote Monday that President Trump is the “worst possible person” to deal with the outbreak of coronavirus.

Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, wrote an op-ed in USA Today calling out Trump for moves he said have weakened global health security and touting his own response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014.

“Trump’s demonstrated failures of judgment and his repeated rejection of science make him the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health challenge,” Biden wrote.

Biden pointed to proposed cuts in Trump’s budgets to agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the 2018 departure of the White House official in charge of responding to outbreaks.

“So far, Trump has blithely tweeted that ‘it will all work out well,’” Biden wrote. “Yet the steps he has taken as president have only weakened our capacity to respond.”

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480095-biden-trump-is-worst-possible-person-to-deal-with-coronavirus-outbreak

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Indeed!! We are only one serious crisis away from chaos Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #1
I believe that day may have arrived, yesterday there were 62 dewsgirl Jan 2020 #2
 

Thekaspervote

(32,793 posts)
1. Indeed!! We are only one serious crisis away from chaos
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 03:01 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)
2. I believe that day may have arrived, yesterday there were 62
Mon Jan 27, 2020, 03:22 PM
Jan 2020

suspected cases, today there are 124.😳 What will it be tomorrow?

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