Analysts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were
reportedly told that the Trump administration is prohibiting the agency
from using seven words or phrases that include “transgender” and
“fetus.”
The Washington Post,
citing an analyst at the meeting in Atlanta, reported that the ban is
related to the 2019 budget that is given to Congress and CDC’s partners.
The
report said the forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,”
“diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence –based” and
“science-based.”
The CDC and the Office of Management and Budget
did not respond to the paper, but the paper cited another unnamed
official who confirmed the list’s existence. The report said that
analysts were, in some cases, given alternate wording for the phrases.
In
the case of “science-based” and “evidence-based,” the analyst said a
substitute phrase was: “CDC bases its recommendations on science in
consideration with community standards and wishes."
CDC, the
nation's top public health agency, is the only federal agency
headquartered outside of Washington, D.C. It has nearly 12,000
employees, and about three-quarters of them are based in the Atlanta
area.
The analyst told the paper that they "could not recall a
previous time when words were banned from budget documents" due to
ideology.”
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