.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump struggles to explain why he disbanded his global health team
actually reassemble such a team"very quickly," though Trump, still unfamiliar with how much of the executive branch works, may not have known that.the White House's pandemic team because he had no idea he might need a pandemic team.
Except, that's not an especially satisfying answer. The whole point of having a team focused on epidemiological threats is viral outbreaks can happen; one never knows when they'll happen; and countries want to be prepared when they do happen. According to the president,"you can never really think is going to happen," but the National Security Council's team existed precisely because officials recognized the possible hazard. Indeed, as theovernight that President Barack Obama established the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the National Security Council after the 2014 Ebola outbreak, making clear that some folks were acutely aware of possibilities like these.
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