I don’t know. Closing the pandemic office,
Lie ...... see the WaPo article at the bottom
[why do you tell such easily disproven lies]
refusing to wear a masks,
So What ... do you wear a mask when you have a cold or the Flu ?
having no national strategy,
There is NO Federal Authority for a National Plan .... even Biden admitted as much - the Gov issues guidelines for the states to follow, it is up to the Governors make the best choices for their states.
besides you disingenuous Hater if Trump had put forth and mandated a
' National Plan ' you little Authoritarians would have discovered Federalism and States Rights and accused Trump of being a Fascist Dictator
More and More states are losing court cases over the Lock Down - It us Unconstitutional to shutter some businesses over others, block Churches while allowing Rioting and Protests
saying it would disappear on its own,
OMG Trump offered an OPINION because generally speaking the Flu [ Remember Covid is a Flu Strain ] Season is typically over by the End of April
But keep pumping out that propaganda even as Trump tests positive and China is back open and back to work.
China is back to work that's a laugh ... I supposed you believe the Chinese Communist Party reports only a few 1000 died
Was the White House office for global pandemics eliminated?
After Barack Obama became president in 2009, he
eliminated the White House Health and Security Office, which worked on international health issues. But after grappling with the 2014 Ebola epidemic, Obama in 2016 established a Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the NSC. A directorate has its own staff, and it is headed by someone who generally reports to the national security adviser.
The structure survived during the early part of Trump’s presidency, when the office was headed by Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer. But, after John Bolton became Trump’s third national security adviser, he decided the organizational chart was a mess and led to too many conflicts. He also thought the staff was too large, having swollen to 430 people, including staffers in the pipeline.
Bolton fired Tom Bossert, the homeland security adviser, realigning the post to report directly to him. He eliminated a number of deputy national security advisers so there was just one. And he folded the global health directorate into a new one that focused on counterproliferation and biodefense. Ziemer departed for a high-level post in the U.S. Agency for International Development, though a former administration official said he was due to leave the NSC anyway. His staff, whom Ziemer had called “the dream team,” remained in place.
Bolton thought there was obvious overlap between arms control and nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and global health and biodefense, the former official said, saying the epidemiology of a biological health emergency is very similar to a bioterrorism attack. Morrison, who headed the combined office beginning in July 2018, was named a deputy assistant to the president and thus had more bureaucratic clout than Ziemer, who was only a senior director.
The Pinocchio Test
One can see the dueling narratives here, neither entirely incorrect. The office — as set up by Obama — was folded into another office. Thus, one could claim the office was eliminated. But the staff slots did not disappear and at least initially the key mission of team remained a priority. So one can also claim nothing changed and thus Biden’s criticism is overstated.
The question that cannot be answered — at least perhaps until a congressionally mandated commission examines the U.S. preparation for this crisis — is whether a separate directorate would have had more clout to bring the issue immediately to the president’s attention. That might have helped buy time to stem the spread of the disease by focusing the full attention of government on the emerging problem. (One example: China
refused to let American experts into Wuhan — a discussion kept at the agency level. But early presidential pressure might have swayed Beijing to cooperate.)
For that reason, we will leave this unrated.
