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In reply to the discussion: I called My Senator to ask How can drumph cut off communications from NIH, CDC, FDA as if he was like "a king" [View all]ancianita
(40,328 posts)27. The intention could be benign or malignant. We'll have to see.The felon's administration has a terrible public interface
and doesn't honestly care what the public knows or doesn't know. Talk about a messaging problem!!
No one within these agencies has standing to file a suit unless they can prove harm has been done in performance of the agency's mission.
Check the link of this excerpt of what the current experts are saying:
Scientists are unclear whether the pause on travel only applies to federal scientists or all federally funded scientists, for example, he says. They're also unsure whether their grants proposals should still include DEI information or whether that would result in their grants being rejected, he says.
"There's just a lot of chaos happening within the community," Gillum says. "This is pretty bad. It's unprecedented."
Others say many of these activities are not unusual during presidential transitions.
Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, told NPR that while the communications freeze is confusing, he was giving the HHS team who issued it "the benefit of the doubt that they're simply trying to get their hands around the administration this is a big government."
"There's just a lot of chaos happening within the community," Gillum says. "This is pretty bad. It's unprecedented."
Others say many of these activities are not unusual during presidential transitions.
Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, told NPR that while the communications freeze is confusing, he was giving the HHS team who issued it "the benefit of the doubt that they're simply trying to get their hands around the administration this is a big government."
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/24/g-s1-44613/cdc-nih-hhs-health-data-mmwr
Our first reaction is one of distrust, and so some stuff floats around the nets like this...

But even if the felon's -- or Project 2025's -- intent is to create in people, fear and uncertainty about their future safety -- and for the present, I don't think it is -- we have to make up our minds not to succumb to fear, or show anything like it, but turn instead to local experts and/or our doctors & local pharmacists to get information. They have their networks.
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I called My Senator to ask How can drumph cut off communications from NIH, CDC, FDA as if he was like "a king" [View all]
electric_blue68
Jan 24
OP
Ty but I think yellow dahlia might be right ...if the hear they constituants....like the Vets didt
electric_blue68
Jan 24
#18
Unfortunately for the last few weeks there's only been a Recording yo leave a message, and your phone #.
electric_blue68
Jan 24
#25
You know the answer. Questions are an invitation to lingo and lies. Just tell them the answer.
ancianita
Jan 24
#11
The intention could be benign or malignant. We'll have to see.The felon's administration has a terrible public interface
ancianita
Jan 24
#27
I hear you. But you still have to stay clear, and not let them worry or scare you.
ancianita
Jan 24
#29