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Let's talk about Trump’s FEMA and CDC falling apart....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump’s FEMA and CDC falling apart....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

0:05.0

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's FEMA and CDC falling apart.

0:12.0

Critical U.S. agencies are collapsing under the weight of trying to square the Trump administration's rhetoric and claims with, well, reality.

0:22.6

Starting at the Centers for Disease Control, CDC Director Susan Monares left her post

0:29.0

after just a few weeks.

0:32.2

Resignations flooded after that, with key officials walking out the door.

0:37.0

The chief medical officer, Dr. Deborah Hourley, resigned.

0:41.4

The director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, resigned.

0:50.7

Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, resigned.

1:00.0

Doskalakis reportedly said he was, quote,

1:03.4

Not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponization of public health.

1:10.5

Hourly complained about censorship of science for political purposes.

1:15.5

The bios of the staff the United States has lost, read like character backstories from

1:21.4

your favorite medical drama. You know, the guy who worked on a bioterror task force

1:27.1

dealing with anthrax before dealing

1:30.2

with Ebola in West Africa, and along the way authored 100 peer-reviewed articles.

1:36.7

That kind of guy.

1:38.5

That's actually Dernigan's bio.

1:41.1

But I cut down the number of articles and removed the stuff about SARS because it just

1:46.9

seemed like too much. That's what the United States lost this week. All of this reportedly

1:54.5

occurred because Director Minares got into it with RFK Jr. over changes to health policy. Reminder, RFK Jr. is not a medical

2:06.3

professional. Meanwhile, over at FEMA, former Trump official Cameron Hamilton, who led the

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