[mrj]

That's worse though. Cutting a program that had been successful for decades is short sighted, but people tend to begin focusing on the cost of prevention after so long. Memories fade and the question starts to become, "Why are we still spending so much?"

That's not what happened. DOGE carelessly cut a program in the middle of fighting a crisis.

[natbobc]

I’m not justifying it but I don’t think it was a problem on American soil yet… and just more “not my problem”. Totally shortsighted.