Mitch McConnell tried to gut a CDC program directed at detecting & responding to infectious-disease

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outbreaks.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried in 2017 to defund a critical program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directed at detecting and curbing the spread of infectious diseases, The New Yorker reported.

The effort came as Republicans were working once again to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The GOP has tried to dismantle the law at least 60 times, and they've so far been unsuccessful at it. During one attempt in 2017, McConnell introduced an amendment to ax the Prevention and Public Health Fund at the CDC, which assists states in detecting and preventing the spread of infectious diseases, according to The New Yorker.

The program receives about $1 billion a year and makes up more than 12% of the CDC's annual budget. The New Yorker reported that almost two-thirds of the fund's money went to state and local health departments, including a program in Kentucky, McConnell's home state, directed at curbing infectious diseases.

The GOP's push to eliminate Obamacare that year ultimately failed when then-Arizona Sen. John McCain dramatically voted down the measure in a highly anticipated Senate floor vote. The New Yorker reported that McConnell and other Republican lawmakers later tried to cut the CDC's fund, but most of the program ultimately survived.

https://news.yahoo.com/mitch-mcconnell-tried-gut-cdc-151639794.html

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1. For someone who was a polio victim

he is shamelessly clueless