Trump's CDC cuts "drowning prevention team," Leftists scream "How will pipo know...?

One of the problems with trying to cut government waste is that the leftist Mainstream Media always clutches their pearls and wails that no matter what you cut, cutting anything will cost lives.

Seriously.  Imagine a govt agency called the "Electrocution prevention team."  With an initial budget of, say, $5 million a year the team studies those deaths in the U.S. and concludes "Teach your kids not to touch downed powerlines, or stick anything in electrical outlets."

Two years later no one has improved on those obvious initial findings, so someone comes up with an idea:  "Let's give each state an average of half a million dollars a year to buy and hand out flyers saying "Don't touch powerlines."  

Ahh.

So the team's budget has now expanded to $30 million per year.  But because there are more stupid parents every year, the number of deaths due to kids touching powerlines continues to climb.

Solution?  Of course: Mo' money!

And now you're ready for the real example: the CDC's "drowning- prevention team."  And right on cue, here's the Democrat fellators at Politico:
    ‘Terrifying’: Trump cuts CDC’s drowning-prevention team

The loss of the CDC’s drowning-prevention unit is one that water safety advocates fear will have a direct impact on children’s safety.

Sub-head: "Layoffs at a federal health agency mean no one’s assessing the risks."

Haven't the risks been well understood for, oh, a couple of millenia?
   Shut up, deplorable.  We just said "no one's assessing the risks"--and it's possible the risks have changed!  After all, new apartment pools housing "undocumented Americans" [Dem-babble for illegal aliens] open up almost every day, right?  And some of their parents--unfamiliar with the concept of "swimming pools"--might not know that kids can't breathe under water!

In April Trump laid off the team at the CDC that was responsible for tracking and publicizing drownings. That team also worked with partners like the YMCA and the American Red Cross to get at-risk children into swimming lessons. That collaboration has halted.

Ahh, so without the feds in DC tellin' em, neither the Y nor the Red Cross would try to get "at-risk children" (??) into swimming lessons?  Oh sure, you believe that, right?

Water safety officials usually warn families that more toddlers die from drowning than any other cause.  This year fewer people will know about the risk.

See, even here in the well-informed U.S, some parents don't know that toddlers shouldn't be left unattended around pools--or the ocean,, or hot cars, or angry dogs, or loaded guns--so we need to pay gruberment employees to tell 'em.

 The cuts come at a perilous moment.

Democrats claim ALL cuts--except for defense--"come at perilous moments."

Drowning deaths rose during the pandemic, especially among children ages 1 to 4, for whom drowning is the No. 1 cause of death — numbers published by the soon-to-be-terminated team.

See, if not for the CDC team no one would ever have suspected kids could drown, right?  If not for the CDC it would never occur to local TV stations to do gripping, top-of-the-broadcast stories when a child drowns, right?

You may be surprised to learn that even after the "prevention team" has been cruelly eliminated by Orange Hitler, states will continue to report drownings to the CDC.  But this doesn't help, as Politico wails, "there will no longer be a team to analyze that data."

(Last available monthly analysis: "Despite our best efforts, drowning is still a major cause of death in the U.S."  
   Team member: "Why don't we have our Democrat friends pass a law banning private pools?  That would also save energy and water!"
   Team leader: "Excellent.  Let's do that.  Now I think we're done for the month.")

Surprisingly, Politico waits til the 36th 'graf to explode the "real reason Orange Hitler ended the "prevention team:"  raaaacism!  Here's Politico:

The latest report revealed disparities in drowning deaths, with the highest rates among American Indian, Alaska Native and Black people.

In every other story where there are "disparate impacts" by race, that point is made by the 4th 'graf, but here it was buried.  Clearly some editors at Politico need some re-training.

Without the team’s analysis of drowning data, water safety experts said they worry that key patterns in drowning deaths will go unnoticed.

Absolutely--one of the main "key patterns" being "Don't leave your kids unattended around water if they're not strong swimmers."

States continue to receive millions in CDC grants for water safety measures, but the agency’s leaders are telling staff to prepare for those to go away, too.

Say, here's a thought:  Instead of giving millions of federal dollars to states to push water safety, why not let the states do what they think they need to do with their own money?  Cuz it's pretty much guaranteed that some states are using the "millions in CDC grants for water safety measures" to fund something else.

"We’re actively pulling away the lifelines and resources that we use to keep our kids safe, and that’s really terrifying,” said the director of an NGO.

Any bets on how many millions this NGO gets every year from the CDC?  Any guesses of those millions pays his or her salary?

Chicago has many drowning deaths because it fronts on Lake Michigan.  A city water-safety planner said they use CDC data to plan warnings, noting that without the reports "it will be harder to figure out how to reach the right people with those warnings.”

The manager of a "water safety advocacy program" at YMCA of Metro Atlanta, said the Y gets money from the CDC to fund its water safety program and offer free swimming classes in low-income areas of the city.

Wait...y'say the YMCA gets money from the CDC?  Wow, wonder how many other favored NGOs are eating at that trough too?

The Atlanta YMCA warned that “without the CDC's data and guidance on best practices, our children are at increased risk of death” every time they swim.

Best practices?  Teach your kids to swim, and don't leave non-swimmers unsupervised around pools or the ocean.  But that message is simply too complicated for adults to handle, so they need the CDC to remind 'em kids can't breathe under water.

"Absolutely terrifying," say the leftists at Politico.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/26/the-pools-open-trumps-laid-off-the-team-that-helps-protect-swimmers-00363426