| > Your own link [5] says that the 165 million funding came in 2024, not 2025 which would make it something done by the Biden administration. From the link: > APHIS received emergency funding of $109.8 million in 2023 and $165 million in 2024 from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) for screwworm response activities. In May 2025, USDA announced an additional $21 million transfer of CCC funds to convert an existing fruit-fly-rearing facility in Metapa, Mexico, into a sterile fly-rearing facility. The Trump administration didn’t start until January of 2025. If you don’t want to give them credit for funding the project in the current financial year, fine, but then it’s especially dishonest to blame them for “defunding” during the same time period. (Particularly when that’s not true - I cited that explicitly to show that funding was not stopped.) > I could not find any link that COPEG funding was cut, but then again you showed no evidence that it was not cut. Other than the part I just quoted for you? The part you obviously read, since you cited it in your comment? Nobody is arguing with you that the current administration cut funding for FAO. They did. What I’ve shown you is that this is is not the same thing as COPEG, FAO is not the prevention program, and even if it were, the cuts were far too late to have caused a problem that began six years ago. |