re: #265 prononymous

Would Obama be cutting the $100 million in his version if Republicans weren’t ideologically opposed to raising taxes? Instead of cutting, “deallocating” or whatever, funds for programs that fight the spread of infectious disease, why not meet in the middle occasionally? This is arguing over peanuts, imo.

I don’t disagree with you. My question is closer to “how can a $100MM cut be unworthy of comment yet a $156MM cut to the same budget item be a travesty”? However, i am asking this as a question rather than typing it as an accusation because it can be very difficult to make sure that one is comparing apples to apples.