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[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 4 points 1 hour ago

At no point did the eradication program end. In 23-24 Biden's USDA quadrupled funding to the Panama facility producing sterile flies. The facility had been underfunded for years (/wave Trump1) and at some point during Covid lost contain of the Darian Gap, officially reaching "we fucked up" thresholds in 2022.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

It's the now classic answer to "Why is this happening now?" Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he'd get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.

[-] prole 1 points 24 minutes ago

Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency

I would say funding it at 4x is pretty urgent

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