re: #124 MinisterO

re: #126 Gus 802

From the 2011 budget…

IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES
In FY 2011, CDC’s programmatic requirement for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases is $735,807,000, an increase of $17,347,000 above the FY 2010 Omnibus. This amount includes CDC’s FY 2011 Immunization and Respiratory Diseases budget request of $579,463,000 and a transfer of $156,344,000 from the balances of the FY 2009 Supplemental Appropriations for Pandemic Influenza in the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF).

I may be completely wrong, but the figure of $ 156 million seems like a bit of a coincidence.

Is this just an accounting matter, or is there a real cut of $ 156 million in the budget ? I don’t have time to spare to go through the rather opaque budget document, but the fact that the article is in Mother Jones makes me suspect that this is just a chance to scream about “cuts”, when the “cut” is offset by unspent money for a previous contingency.

If anybody has time to look at this properly, I’d be curious to know.