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Depends. Say a president tells the executive agency to lie about the data.I think Trump may not feel like he has sufficient control of the CDC. The CDC isn’t run by his political appointees.Great, now we will have even less reliable information.The Trump administration has ordered hospitals to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, beginning on Wednesday, send all coronavirus patient information to a central database in Washington — a move that has alarmed public health experts who fear the data will be distorted for political gain.
The new instructions are contained in a little-noticed document posted this week on the Department of Health and Human Services’ website, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports. From now on, H.H.S., and not the C.D.C., will collect daily reports about the patients that each hospital is treating, how many beds and ventilators are available, and other information vital to tracking the pandemic.
Trump orders hospitals to bypass CDC in reporting Covid data, so his people see the numbers first
This is beyond disturbing, but we’re living it, unfortunately. While the news headlines (as reported here by Mark Sumner) may have tongues clucking tonight about Trump’s so-called intent to enforce Covid-19 reporting by hospitals through the use of...www.dailykos.com
For perfectly innocent reasons I'm sure.
Because the data will initially go to a government agency Trump controls instead of another government agency Trump controls?
So you are saying the Executive shouldn't have control of Executive agencies?
Un-elected civil servants should be able to override an elected official?
Im not okay with that.
You would be OK with it if a Democrat was doing it, you dime store hack-twat.
You’re attacking me based on an accusation that you fabricated.
That’s pretty weak sauce.
No, I would not be okay with that. Would you be okay with it?
Based on your partisan hackery posting.
So you just made something up to use against me. Cool. As long as we are both clear, there’s nothing true about your post. Just your own imagination.
So would you be okay with Trump telling the HHS to lie about statistics? Obviously not. You’re not an idiot. However, this contradicts your other assertion that executives should be in charge of executive agencies. My point is that their power shouldn’t be unlimited. That’s what happens in screwed up countries that we typically look down on. This is a hypothetical scenario, just a thought experiment, but we have seen Trump’s admin trending down this road with his statements on hurricane Dorian for example.
Not made up, based on my observation of your posting.
is releasing selective information lying? have other administrations in the past done the same thing without people like you caring about it?
All power in the Executive branch flows from the elected President. What you want is Bureaucrats to be able to override the elected president because you don't like him.