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Re:How the CDC’s restrictive testing guidelines hid the coro... by tathougies on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:32AM (#22655686)
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.

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Re:How the CDC’s restrictive testing guidelines hid the coro... by tathougies on Sunday March 22, 2020 @11:55AM (#22655891)
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.

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Re:How the CDC’s restrictive testing guidelines hid the coro... by grogenaut on Sunday March 22, 2020 @12:21PM (#22656102)
You were the one misled, maybe you should contact them.
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