White House Requests $1.4 Billion Ebola Emergency Fund After Dismantling Prevention Infrastructure

The Trump administration asked Congress on June 24 for more than $1.4 billion to combat the widening Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda, including $800 million in specific allocations. This comes five months after Elon Musk's DOGE dismantled the USAID detection and response programs designed to catch outbreaks early. The request now funds emergency response to a crisis the eliminated infrastructure was built to prevent—a sequence critics say exposes the cost of eliminating preparedness capacity mid-threat.