#Congress voted earlier this month to swat down #DC #legislation that divorced the city’s local #tax code from #Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. #Republicans celebrated the move as a way to put more money back in Washingtonians’ pockets through various tax deductions — but DC officials warned it could #cost the #city millions & upend tax season while it is already well underway, raising concerns from the city’s chief financial officer.

#law #HomeRule #Trump #idiocracy

#Congress voted earlier this month to swat down #DC #legislation that divorced the city’s local #tax code from #Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. #Republicans celebrated the move as a way to put more money back in Washingtonians’ pockets through various tax deductions — but DC officials warned it could #cost the #city millions & upend tax season while it is already well underway, raising concerns from the city’s chief financial officer.

#law #HomeRule #Trump #idiocracy

“ #Spending 2 to 3 times the #cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense in terms of fiscal stewardship,” said Tom Inglesby, director Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of #PublicHealth, who served as a snr covid19 adviser during the Biden admin. “We’re not going to get the same quality or breadth of information we would have by being in the #WHO, or have anywhere the influence we had.”

#Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #health #USpol

After pulling out of the #WorldHealthOrganization, the #Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the #global #disease surveillance & outbreak functions the #UnitedStates helped build & accessed at a fraction of the #cost, according to 3 administration officials briefed on the proposal.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #health #WHO #USpol

Reinventing the wheel — badly

After leaving the #WHO, #Trump officials propose a replacement 3 times more expensive to duplicate it.


#HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the #US accessed through the #WorldHealthOrganization at a fraction of the #cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #health #USpol

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“ #Spending 2 to 3 times the #cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense in terms of fiscal stewardship,” said Tom Inglesby, director Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of #PublicHealth, who served as a snr covid19 adviser during the Biden admin. “We’re not going to get the same quality or breadth of information we would have by being in the #WHO, or have anywhere the influence we had.”

#Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #health #USpol

After pulling out of the #WorldHealthOrganization, the #Trump administration is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the #global #disease surveillance & outbreak functions the #UnitedStates helped build & accessed at a fraction of the #cost, according to 3 administration officials briefed on the proposal.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #health #WHO #USpol

Reinventing the wheel — badly

After leaving the #WHO, #Trump officials propose a replacement 3 times more expensive to duplicate it.


#HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the #US accessed through the #WorldHealthOrganization at a fraction of the #cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #law #policy #GovernmentSpending #PublicHealth #health #USpol

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