The Trump administration has delayed and may cancel roughly $140 million in grants to fund fentanyl overdose response efforts, according to four staff members with close knowledge of the process at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The staffers shared detailed information with NPR about the funding disruption and potential cuts on the condition of anonymity, saying they don’t have permission to speak publicly about their concerns and feared retribution from the Trump administration if identified.
I do get a bit of a personal chuckle out of reading this. As I’m reading this, I’m literally in the middle of an argument with a bunch of people in the reddit politics sub who actually support Trump bullying Canada around, saying “Canada needs the US more than the US needs Canada, so of course we should negotiate”, the $1.3 billion deal was for “Infrastructure jobs and better border security”, and “we’re gonna have to pay some tariffs to the US and if we don’t Canada’s economy will crumble”
Trying to explain to them that negotiating with Trump in good faith is a non-starter was itself a non-starter. I certainly hope that their opinion wasn’t the opinion of the people of Canada in general.
Lmao when that one idiot hit you with “I think you have me confused with Mark Carney” god damn I hate Redditors so much