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@craigmaloney Only evidence-based appeared in the FY2018 budget overview https://www.cdc.gov/budget/fy2018/congressional-justification.html
@alpacaherder I'm sure there's a good reason for banning the other six words.
Really, shouldn't banning free speech be the FCCs job anyway? They already have a list of seven words you can't say on the radio.
@craigmaloney A federal civil servant on-duty writing a federal document has zero free speech in how it is created per the Supreme Court.
@craigmaloney I've been wrote up at $BUREAU for call contact reports that didn't meet task standards for just being too negatively toned.
@alpacaherder I did a quick lookup of the most common words in this document:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/26192685/
That "surveillance" shows up 222 times in the document makes me think this is more politically motivated.
@craigmaloney If it came from OMB, it *always* is politically motivated even when it seemingly isn't regardless of who is POTUS.
@craigmaloney Keyword searching the full FY2018 justification makes it look like somebody editorialized their budget submission heavily.
@craigmaloney Writing up a FY2019 budget submission to try to tug at congressional heartstrings is dirty pool and OMB won't allow it
@alpacaherder Considering the number of hearts in congress I dare say this would already be a doomed strategy.
@craigmaloney "vulnerable" shows up 14 times in 333 pages for FY2018. If it showed up once or more per page for 300+ pages for FY2019...
@craigmaloney I think OMB figured out malicious compliance by CDC budget writers and tried to strike back at them.
