Former President Donald J. Trump says he’d shut down the Biden government‘s Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy should he retake the White House in the 2024 presidential election. Despite its name, Trump explained in a recent interview that the office is actually an avenue for the executive branch to hand out political favors and fund pork projects. In 2018, then-President Trump ended a similar program enacted by his predecessor, Barrack Obama.
“Well, he wants to spend a lot of money on something that you don’t know if it’s gonna be 100 years or 50 years or 25 years,” the former Republican President said regarding Biden‘s establishment of the office. Trump continued, “And it’s just a way of giving out pork.”
Redundancy is another issue that Trump cites regarding the Biden government‘s pandemic policy office. “I think we’ve learned a lot, and we can mobilize, you know, we can mobilize,” he explained, noting his government’s unprecedented mobilization to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The former President continued, “A lot of the things that you do and a lot of the equipment that you buy is obsolete when you get hit with something.”
