‘Republican Cuts Kill’: Ad Ties GOP’s Health Funding Cuts to Ebola

Agenda Project Action Fund, no strangers to the anti-GOP attack ad, released a new ad Monday morning targeting Republicans over cuts to public health research in light of the first cases of Ebola.

Announcing “Republican cuts kill,” the ad features a montage of GOP lawmakers calling for spending cuts, interspersed with NIH and CDC officials arguing that the slowdown in funding hampered response to infectious disease outbreaks — and pictures of dead bodies, presumably from the Ebola outbreak in west Africa.

Per Talking Points Memo’s Sahil Kapur, the group has made an ad buy in Kentucky, where Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (who opens the ad) is in a tight race for reelection, and is considering additional states.

The ad comes just as NIH head Francis Collins told Huffington Post that the decade’s worth of frozen funding was indirectly responsible for a lack of ebola vaccine.

Watch the ad below:

[h/t Talking Points Memo]

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