Rep. Auchincloss Blames ‘Lack of Global Public Health Infrastructure’ for Covid Pandemic

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AUCHINCLOSS: "Cherry-picking examples of spending in order to throw the baby out with the bathwater is a time-honored tradition in Washington, D.C.. I can talk about how the Department of Defense spends tens of thousands of dollars on toilet seats, or millions of dollars on Alaskan king crab, but I’m not talking about defunding the entire Pentagon. I think the military is important. I think the military occasionally spends things unwisely. There is no federal program that I’m aware of that has zero waste, fraud or abuse. But there are also very few federal programs that have a higher return on investment than basic science and global public health. And we saw the impacts of that and how it affects Americans here at home just five years ago with Covid, when lack of monitoring and lack of global public health infrastructure helped create a pandemic."