'Terrifying': Trump cuts CDC's drowning-prevention team

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

05/26/2025 06:00 AM EDT


Water safety officials usually spend Memorial Day weekend warning families that more toddlers die from drowning than any other cause. This year, fewer people will know about the risk. In April, President Donald Trump laid off the team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 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.

The cuts come at a perilous moment. Drowning deaths rose during the pandemic, hitting 4,300 in 2023, the most recent data, compared to around 4,000 in 2019. They rose even more among the youngest children, ages 1 to 4, for whom drowning is the No. 1 cause of death — numbers published by the soon-to-be-terminated team.

“I can’t tell you how many media calls we got after that report was released, because I think it was a shocking number to people, and they wanted to know what’s going on,” said Amy Hill, who works on Chicago’s water safety task force, referring to a CDC study released last May. “When the CDC issues a report like that, people pay attention.”

States will continue to report drownings through the CDC’s National Vital Statistics System, but the data will no longer have a team to analyze it. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said the Trump administration was not ending its support for drowning prevention efforts and that HHS would continue to support them.

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

[hlthe2b]

1. They have cut both the NIH & CDC SIDs programs too

Hell, if we starve them, I guess they think we won't have that many to worry about dying in infancy or to drowning as toddlers.

Yay, PRO-LIFE movement! Yeah, sure.

More sadism from MAGATs. At least MAGGOTS don't kill the host--they just feed off the dying tissue.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. We use natural resources that the rich want for themselves

The piece of shit in the White House and the other pieces of shit that support him will kill as many of us as they can.

Too bad when I said this eight years ago, I was screamed at by lots of people on the left

😡

[usonian]

3. He gonna regret that

[hildegaard28]

4. Donald Trump, Elon Musk,

And the Republicans want you to drown. That should be shouted by national Democrats every opportunity they get. Our party is so terrible on messaging. The last time we had good messaging was with those Republicans throwing granny off the cliff commercials from years ago. We need more of that.