Because after all, that money belongs in their pockets:
Americans for Prosperity, the Koch dark money pressure group that has spent several hundred million electing Republicans, compiled a list of programs they wanted Congress to cut, which includes CDC funding for global pandemic response & disease prevention https://t.co/jKx6VBCKXB
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020
In 2018, after increasing the Pentagon's budget that year by $82 billion and just after passing a $1.5 tril tax cut, the Congressional GOP pushed a $15 billion "rescission bill" cutting spending on health programs, including international aid for responding to infectious disease. pic.twitter.com/OPzeCf6pOu
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020
President Trump's budget requests repeatedly call for cuts to the CDC & the State Dept's infectious disease response funds. Why? The same cuts were demanded by Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks and Heritage Action, influential right-wing billionaire-backed pressure groups. pic.twitter.com/8NL8sez14W
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020
Here are some links to the demands by these outside groups: https://t.co/xCtBqohbjN https://t.co/INJAwYzxAm https://t.co/Tw4S4G0p4p
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) March 14, 2020

The Emmett Till Act was passed in the House last week 410-4.
Federalist Republicans Louis Gohmert, Justin Amash, Thomas Massie and Ted Yahoo all voted against the bill.
Yahoo said,” This bill today is an overreach of the federal government and encroaches on the principles of Federalism.”
Federalists (states-rights) believe that the Constitution gives the federal government very few powers.
They believe that the federal government has the right to fund the military, keep order domestically, and very little else.
Which is why if it were left up to the Federalists there would be no Social Security, or Unemployment Insurance or any other domestic program meant to assist the poor, the sick and the old.
Fascist, anti-Federalist PM Boris Johnson of England said on Saturday that the time was fast approaching that all elderly people would be required to stay in their homes.
So-called anti-Federalist governors like NY’s Cuomo, Washington states Inslee, California’s Newsome and mayors like Ravinder Bhalla of Hoboken, NJ are quarantining their states and cities and limiting the people’s right to free association and assembly.
Even going as far as putting the elderly under house arrest as Boris Johnson plans to do in England.
Wasn’t that part of the plan in Orwell’s “1984?”
How far is too far in a democratic-republic?