THE CDC FOUNDATION

The CDC Laundromat That Supports DEI In Your State And Mine

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a laundromat and it is called the CDC Foundation and that explains today’s almost correct cover graphic. That graphic is almost correct because in the case of CDC the money that is accumulated (far left hand box) is from a perfectly legal source, our tax dollars.

Today I will expose how both federal and state tax dollars are funneled through the CDC Foundation to expand a vaccination registry in Kentucky that can be used to identify not just those who have been vaccinated but those who have not. AND I will show you how those same tax dollars are used to support the anti-school choice and pro-gender affirming care (which includes surgeries on minors) and other DEI related activities by a non-government “Partner” of the Kentucky Department of Public Health. It is a scheme that is most likely being used in at least 52 other states, territories, cities, and publicly funded universities, medical schools.

But first a recap.
On January 20, 2025, I briefly noted that even though President Trump had warned the agencies of the federal government that all DEI activities would be removed CDC was still promoting the LGBTQ+ agenda on it website. On January 22, 2025 the day after president Trump signed his Executive Order demanding that all DEI activity be moved from the agencies I wrote how CDC and particularly the Division of Adolescent and Student health was still promoting LGBT+ ideology on CDC.gov. I also identified four people at CDC who bore substantial responsibility for CDC’s DEI posture and who should have been put on administrative leave: Dr. Mandy Cohen, Dir. CDC, Dr. Kathleen Either, Dir. Division of Adolescent and Student Health, Dr. Liandris Liburd, Director, Office of Health Equity, and Dr. Leonard Jack, Jr. PhD, who wrote the CDC bible on how to include DEI ideology and vocabulary in all CDC publications.

On January 24, 2025 I submitted a media request to the CDC Office of Communications that asked for CDC’s schedule for compliance with the President’s Executive Order. I received no response. On January 27th I submitted another media request to CDC asking them when they intended to comply with the President’s EO and I included a copy of this article which called for the removal of Dr. Ethier. CDC responded that they would get back to me later that day. They did not. But the next day Dr. Ethier was gone and the day after the CDC website was a mere shadow of its former self. The coincidence is interesting.

While DEI at CDC appears to be gone —— it is alive and well at the CDC Foundation

Have The Coffee Pot Ready

So — you thought that President Trump’s Executive order banning DEI from the federal government solved the problem of our tax dollars being used to fund federal agencies that promote transgender ideology and gender affirming care. But what none of us realized is that the swamp extends well beyond the federal government and into what appears to be innocent and well intended private sector public health organizations. In reality many of those organizations have never been well intended. Unraveling how non-government public health organizations work in cooperation with CDC and the states is just one of the tangled balls of yarn in the bag of all federal agency entanglements with external “partners”. The relationship between CDC, the CDC Foundation, and its donors i.e.“external partners” is meant to ensure that DEI ideology endures even when administrations change.

Every good laundromat has a preferred laundry machine brand — and so does CDC its called The CDC Foundation. The CDC Foundation exists as “…an independent nonprofit organization created by Congress to mobilize philanthropic and private-sector resources to support the critical health protection work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the nation's public health system.”

In 2024, CDC contributed approximately $17,000,000 to the CDC Foundation as part of a cooperative agreement. This was part of a larger award with an expected total funding of approximately $68,000,000 over a four-year period from 2024 through 2028. However CDC money is only one funding source for the CDC Foundation. The CDC Foundation has an extensive list of “Partners”. A partner is really a Donor. Among those donors are 52 states, US territories, state agencies, and publicly funded universities. Two of those “donors” are the State of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department of Public Health.

By way of perspective, in FY 2023, the CDC had total obligations to the states of $14,891,181,484 and $273,333,525 to the territories; at total of about $15.7B. In FY 23 CDC’s total discretionary budget allocation was about $10.7B. The math is fuzzy but problematic enough for DOGE to take a real close look.

Each of these 52 states, territories, cities, and public universities donated a minimum of $50,000 to the CDC Foundation or a total of $2,600,000. However, it could have been as much as $100,000 or a total of $5,200,000. A few of these states donate twice; once through the state itself and a second time via their department of Public health. Kentucky is one of those states. Over the same four year period noted above the the contribution from the states and territories will be between $10,400,000.00 and $20,800,000.00

What exactly does Kentucky get in return for “donating” $100,000-$200,000/year to the CDC Foundation? A LOT of money in return for projects that the state isn’t funding. In other words, the money that Kentucky “donates” to the CDC Foundation is a multiplied by the donations of other states and the private sector the state can receive in the form of grants and cooperative agreements ( see above) issued by the CDC using money given to the CDC from the CDC Foundation.

For example, when the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) collaborates with the CDC, KDPH gains access to grants and cooperative agreements that are used by KDPH to fund projects that our State Legislature did not.

In short: CDC uses state and federal tax payer money to load the CDC Foundation washing machine. That money is then used to provide “enhanced services” through CDC grants to the states and ultimately the state’s partners. In Kentucky one of those partners is the KDPH which has been designated by the CDC Foundation as a bona fide agent that can receive funds for specific programs. Seems like a slick idea —- tax payer money in —- a greater amount of money from corporations and other states — out. But there is a catch. Isn’t there always?

The CDC assess an “administrative fee” of up to 16% based on the value of the grant. Thus a $100,000 grant could well have has an administrative fee of $16,000 taken from it.

So —— Kentucky TAXPAYERS give money to the CDC Foundation in two ways: 1) directly through donations of our tax dollars to the Foundation and 2) indirectly by paying federal income taxes which go to CDC which in turn sends money to the CDC Foundation. Then the CDC Foundation, bundles that money with money donated by private and the public source ands sends that money back to CDC which in turns sends it back to the states OR a third party NGO grant awardee. The big money winners here are CDC and the third party NGO.

Here is an example.

The Kentucky Department of Public Health (KDPH) was awarded a grant from the CDC (using money obtained from the CDC Foundation to support connecting electronic health records (EHR) of immunizations to the Kentucky Immunization Registry (KYIR) via the Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE). KDPH received $10,000 from the CDC for each immunization provider that agreed to participate in the program. The objective was to increase the number of immunization centers in the state and to capture records of who was immunized - but that registry also provides a way for the KYDPH to know who wasn’t vaccinated.

Let The Games Begin

This is where things start getting exciting. IF you live in Kentucky and most likely in the other states that donate to the CDC Foundation your tax dollars - both state and federal tax dollars - are being funneled through the CDC foundation, where it is multiplied, sent back to CDC and then to state public health agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) so that it can be used to support a biased political position.

In Kentucky it is the State and the Kentucky Department of Public Health that are taking money from the CDC laundromat (the CDC Foundation) and giving to the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky (KYHK) to actually implement the immunization expansion program described above.

But Wait! There’s More!

The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky isn’t administering that grant for free because they’re just good guys. Nope. Somewhere along the way they’re getting a cut as well. So what does the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky do with OUR TAX DOLLARS? Some of it was used to oppose the recent school choice ballot issue in Kentucky known as Amendment 2 and some of it is being used to oppose Kentucky HB 154, a bill that would ban state monies from being used to pay for gender affirming care and and mutilating surgeries on minor children.

The CDC Foundation is a politically biased organization (just look at their donors and its Board of Directors to see who its newest members are ) and it is funneling money, tax payer money, through CDC to the states and politically biased NGOs who use that money to interfere in ballot issues and the legislative process.

There are Solutions that will address both the federal and the state problems.

First, the state legislature(s) must divorce the CDC Foundation; stop donating and stop seeking grants for things that the state can do on its own IF they have the money. In Kentucky where the vast majority of legislators are Republicans this should be no problem. And they must also permanently sever the relationship between KYDPH and The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and all other similar partisan external organizations. By the way — to my good friends in the legislature all y’all need to find out who besides KYDPH is “donating” to the CDC Foundation.

Second, our federal Representatives and Senators must work together to introduce and see to the passage of legislation that terminates the CDC Foundation by revoking its 501(c)3 status and severing any administrative relationship it has with the CDC.

We will not have medical freedom if we remain yoked to CDC and partisan public and private public health organizations within the states.

That goes for all my readers and all the different states they live in as well.

Union, Kentucky

7 February 2025

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