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Senate Minority Leader: cutting CDC funding would be like “cutting your nose to spite your face”
From CNN’s Beth English
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said cutting funding to the CDC would be like “cutting your nose to spite your face.”
“We are going to do everything we can to make sure that the CDC is fully funded in the stimulus package,” the New York Senator said Sunday, responding to a question from CNN.
“The administration is talking about --Republican McConnell is talking about cutting it – that would be cutting your nose to spite your face. We need the CDC to help us fight Covid. To not have the facts, to not have the science makes no sense at all.”
He earlier stressed the importance of keeping the data on Covid-19 public.
“We must keep the information about the number of cases and the number of deaths from Covid public through the CDC,” Schumer said.
“For the President, the administration to want to sweep the facts under the rug so they can hide them, it's not gonna work. Whenever the President has tried to avoid the problem, like this will go away, this wont affect many people, it’s gotten worse,” he said.
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