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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “It will require not the same resources as before, but likely…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod

Published | Video Starts at 1:19:55

As someone who's had a background or a care in terms of scientific research, there's certain things you can't just turn off and turn on again. And it's as if nothing happened. And so we are, if anything, It will require not the same resources as before, but likely far more resources than before to even try to catch up. But on top of it, a lot of these cuts and abuses of power were based on norms. And they were norms that were respected for a long time. (1:19:55–1:20:05)

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Asserts that more resources will be needed to recover from research funding cuts.

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