Who gutted the pandemic response unit?
Edit:
Trump's administration did request funding to the "pandemic response team", set up by the Obama administration, be cut.
> Imagine Trump had taken clear and decisive action against COVID in January
Like the travel ban, which he announced on Jan 31?
And yes, like the travel ban, which clearly was the wrong solution for the problem.
I don't blame the Trump administration for failing to predict the future, but I do see that they willfully ignored bad news over and over again and in fact continue to do so even today, which is completely unconscionable.
Civil servants failed. It had nothing to do with Trump, they failed at the things that their agency was paid to do.