Let’s also not forget that the CDC and their state and county public health counterparts have blown their budgets year after on gun control, sex ed, LGBTQXYZ and whatever else trendy social issue caught their squirrel like attention span. Not to mention new office furniture, team trainings in exotic locations and the daily muffin and coffee run.
It’s not exactly like that.
There were plenty of budget meetings where the Emergency Management expenses were dismissed: When was the last time there was a ( pandemic, asteroid hit, earthquake, etc.)
And that money was moved over to the Parks department to give some idiot kid a job.