CDC asks researchers to assess how their projects align with Trump administration priorities

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

March 9, 2025, 8:33 PM


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a survey on March 6 asking some federally funded researchers to assess how their work aligns with the priorities of President Donald Trump's administration, according to documents obtained by ABC News.

CDC-funded researchers were asked whether their research would help combat "Christian persecution," defend women and children against "gender ideology extremism" or help curb illegal immigration. They were also surveyed about whether their research included any diversity or climate change initiatives -- among other questions that roughly align with recent executive orders.

On Friday, the agency clarified that the survey was only applicable to CDC partners doing work outside the United States. It's not clear how many researchers received the email, which was sent by the CDC's Global Health Center. "Receiving this survey was deeply unsettling. It's hard not to see it as an attempt to inject politics into scientific research, forcing us to align with ideological priorities rather than urgent public health needs," said one researcher who received the survey.

Researchers who received the survey also told ABC News that they were concerned their answers would be used to jeopardize ongoing research or could be used to justify further cuts, especially to research conducted abroad. "I worry about how these responses might be used to justify funding cuts, especially for critical public health initiatives," one researcher said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/cdc-asks-researchers-assess-projects-align-trump-administration/story?id=119618340

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Hatch Act issue.

[Walleye]

1. "Christian persecution". Christians have never had it better than in this country.

And yet they have to have persecution to survive as a religion. That’s sick nobody even knows what gender ideology is. They don’t believe in expertise. They think everybody is as dumb as they are.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

2. Since Putin wants Americans to die in great numbers

I would say the CDC doesn't align with his priorities at all.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Politicizing the CDC will also make it harder for any of their projects overseas

Who will want to collaborate with a project that they know has been declared as "aligned with Trump"? It's like being told the CIA has OKed your research project.

[cstanleytech]

4. A political litmus test for research at the CDC? WTF!?!?!?

[highplainsdem]

5. The media should give this story a lot of attention, and get admin officials and GOP lawmakers on the

record on how they think any of those questions have anything to do with disease control and prevention.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. So now the Center for Disease Control is to determine how

political a killing disease is before attempting to eradicate it?

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

7. Just say yes! Use technobabble to prove it. Then the onus is on them to prove you are lying. Subtle resistance.

[Botany]

8. The CDC does science end of story

Science:

the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained.

*****
It is not red or blue, black or white, straight or gay, and or a test if you believe in or don’t believe in
in some kind of deity it is just science. It is not supposed to be driven by political agenda.

[patphil]

9. But, but, but weren't we supposed to be concerned about Democrats weaponizing government agencies?

Read the CDC's mission statement:

https://www.cdc.gov/about/cdc/index.html

This isn't supposed to be about ideology. It's the science of disease control.
Or at least it was.
Everything Trump touches dies.

[Martin68]

10. An absurd concept. Like choosing your doctor based on his political ideology.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. If "Trump administration priorities" are killing off everyone over 65 so they can pocket their...

Social Security & Medicare money, then nothing these researchers are doing is going to advance that.

Better fire 'em!

[lonely bird]

12. What in the absolute fuck?

The MAGAt infested Republican Party has hurled itself into the sun.