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Homeland Security

White House Initiates Comprehensive Biodefense Strategy, Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 20th, 2017

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White House Initiates Comprehensive Biodefense Strategy, Official Says

Thomas Bossert, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. Photo: Atlantic Council.

The Trump administration will develop a comprehensive strategy to address biothreats to the U.S. whether natural or man-made, the president’s senior adviser for homeland security issues said on Thursday.The strategy development will be coordinated by Tom Bossert, assistant to the President on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Bossert said at the Aspen Security Forum. He said the U.S. has never had a comprehensive biodefense strategy, noting that both former Presidents Bush and Obama issued presidential directives but that “we’ve had a…

Congress

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Army

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