In case you run into a MAGA bitching about egg prices, tell them Biden allocated $306 million for bird flu response.

[LaMouffette]

And now Rump is clawing back every dollar to fund his massive tax cut for billionaires and firing the researchers tasked with responding to pandemics. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has an Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats (PET). I predict that its director, Summer Galloway, will soon be forced to resign and PET will be terminated. Rump et al. want us to die.

Biden administration allocates $306m in its final days for bird flu response

The Biden administration, in its waning days, is allocating $306m to respond to public health threats from bird flu, a move applauded by public health experts as the H5N1 outbreak continues to expand among people and animals in the US.

As the outbreak intensifies, the US should continue investing in pandemic response like wastewater monitoring, vaccine manufacturing and distribution, rapid test development and other pressing needs to curtail the outbreak, experts say.

But it’s not clear whether the incoming Trump administration will continue such work.

About $183m of the new funding will go toward pandemic preparedness writ large, especially treatment, at the regional, state and local level, while $103m will be spent monitoring people who have been exposed to the bird flu virus. Another $8m will go to test manufacturing and distribution, and $11m is set aside for research on how to combat H5N1.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/biden-administration-bird-flu-funding

Trump 'planning mass job cuts at US health agencies'

(February 7, 2025, from PharmaPhorum) The Trump administration is preparing a new executive order that would seek thousands of layoffs at federal health agencies, including the FDA, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Citing people familiar with the matter, the news service reports that an order could be issued as early as next week mandating that agencies shed a certain percentage of their workforce.

The White House has, however, denied that an executive order relating to agencies that come under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is forthcoming, says the WSJ.

Officials at federal agencies have already been asked to prepare lists of employees who are essential for operations – as well as those who are not. That is focusing on probationary employees – i.e., those who recently took up employment – for whom it would be easier to terminate their jobs.

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/trump-planning-mass-job-cuts-us-health-agencies

[Lovie777]

1. Unfortunately a lot of magas don't believe there is actually a "Bird Flu"...............

because Democrats always make up shit. I kid you not.

[MagickMuffin]

3. If that's the case then why hasn't the Convicted Felon lowered the price

He said he’d lower the prices, so, Is President Biden still in charge of egg prices?

[durablend]

5. "Biden is out killing all the chickens"

[inwiththenew]

9. "It's going to take time to build up a chicken supply because Biden killed so many"

That is what I heard the other day when that question was asked to magat.

[durablend]

10. It's the excuse du jour

[kerouac2]

2. These moops are liquored up on the gop koolade

They are all in for cutting everything with the misguided idea that it is unnecessary spending and will result in a big fat check to them. It won't.

It will result in higher costs, less benefits, less safety, pain and death.

Lowering unnecessary spending and regulations sounds fine, til you can't trust your eggs and food supply, healthcare, air travel, education, etc...

In the end, they will have nobody looking out for them, no resources to help and no money.

And they will blame Dems for not stopping it, of course.

[Horse with no Name]

4. It seems like they don't care about egg prices now..

Not sure why since they are almost double what they were under Biden.

[karynnj]

6. Eliminating so much of the health and safety research, monitoring and guidance

Is sickening. This is stuff that neither the states or private companies can really replace. Add in the completely predictable increase in outbreaks because of losing both domestic and US foreign measures to contain them, it is clear that Trump 2 might be worse than Trump 1 COVID.

Maybe we could frame all of this as Donald Trump making us a third world nation, where the wealthy are extremely wealthy and almost everyone else has next to nothing.

[BoRaGard]

7. "Screw the stupid birds. More more more tax cuts for the rich!" - G.O.P.

[LaMouffette]

8. Exactly! Dems in Congress need to repeat this message over and over: ALL of the "savings" gained are for the billionaire

tax cuts. The fact that the MAGAs think we will all benefit from eliminating these "unnecessary" institutions is both laughable and tragic.

But if it hits them where it hurts, there is a very faint glimmer of hope that they will finally see Rump for who he is.

More likely, of course, is that Rump will make both Musk and Dems the scapegoats and claim he "knew nothing" about the government being drowned in a bathtub.

[durablend]

11. Calling it

Trump ragey tweet: "IF THE DEMS THOUGHT IT WAS SO BAD WHY DIDN'T THEY STOP IT?!?"