CDC budget for FY '18 was lower than FY '17. Source: https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2018/budget-in-brief/cdc/...

Maybe you should try contacting politifact with the correction?

I dont disagree with your source obviously but several major fact checking websites are reporting the opposite.

Still according to factcheck.org, with links to contemporaneous news articles indicates that all trump admin budgets are higher than the last obama one (fy17).

Doing some more analysis it seem that the figures you posted include emergency funding the cdc received for things like zika. These are not part of the standard budget. For example in fy16, they include retained funds for swine flu which expired. If you remove these you as the trends reported in the news.

You were the one misled, maybe you should contact them.

In both links the Trump administration tried to cut the funding but Congress funded it anyway. Can't say that instills confidence in health leadership.

That said, calling the situation a hoax was beyond redemption.

Read the politifact. Trump said the accusations he hasn't responded are a hoax like the impeachment accusations. He never said covid was a hoax. Not sure why everyone keeps saying this. Its quite clear from his speech.

In the same speech he compared the projected fatalities to that of the common flu and said the press was in "hysteria mode." The message was very clearly from Trump. There's nothing to worry about.

He downplayed the threat and called the alarm bells a political hoax. That is the same thing as calling the threat a hoax even if he never denied the existence of the virus. A week later it was a national emergency.

You are spreading misinformation yourself. Even your own link doesn't support exactly what you just said. "Renaming" is not what happened.

Your link: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/17/instagram-...

> After Ziemer’s departure, the global health team was reorganized as part of an effort by then-National Security Adviser John Bolton

From https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-bud...

> Morrison objected to claims that the office was “dissolved,” writing in the Post on March 16 that the administration “create[d] the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, which was the result of consolidating three directorates into one, given the obvious overlap between arms control and nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and global health and biodefense. It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented.”

Why on earth would anyone believe a Trump Appointee on what happened. The administration has proven themselves time and time again to lie through their teeth. And it sure seems to me that Arms Control, Weapons of Mass Destruction don't have that much in common with Global Health. And if it did, where is that agency right now during this crisis?