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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The impact of these [research funding] cuts are devastating…”

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 1:19:13

You know, so I sit on the health care committee in Energy and Commerce and so which has jurisdiction over the NIH and much of this university funding. And. First and foremost it is The impact of these [research funding] cuts are devastating and we will feel them for a generation. What gets turned off in four years does not get turned on in four years. That money could turn on, but the cost of that, those experiments being shut down, research being cut off, the continuity of science matters. (1:19:13–1:19:19)

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Asserts that research funding cuts will have long-lasting negative effects.

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