re: #225 MinisterO

re: #183 Barflytom
re: #190 Barflytom

The $156 million is unspent funding from the FY 2009 supplemental H1N1 response funds. The GOP plan would take that money back. The effect would be to cut the budget for immunization and respiratory diseases to $579 million, a 19% reduction from 2010 funding.

So did every other proposal, including the President’s for 2011.
I thought I was missing something for a while, because I couldn’t quite believe that anyone could be crass enough to be talking about an offset of $ 156 million which the CDC has already received as a “cut” of $ 156 million.
If the 2012 appropriation remained around $ 580 million or so without restoring the $ 156 million, then you can rightly claim that as a cut in actual cash available to spend.
Otherwise, the claim of a $ 156 million cut is absolute bollocks.